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    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

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    Mardek.....With the recent slew of buyouts to try and help settle their long term financials, to the point that right now as it stands currently, they are under a lot of debt (close to $4.5B). For them to add Tribune to the mix would be corporate suicide. No shareholder is willing to shoulder that much debt! Tribune for all intents and purposes are the most unique group in that they do own some major affiliates but they also own stations in DMA's 1-4 and those stations alone don't come cheap! If they ended up deciding to buy them, the debt load for the new Tegna would double to a point that shareholders would find it completely unsustainable

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    Out & About

    in General TV

    Posted

    I hope that involves the hiring of a well-known Voice Over, like either Bill Ratner, or maybe Scott Chapin.

     

    Really doubt WTKR is going to get Ratner or Chapin.

     

    I don't mind Matt Tacka. But heck maybe we can get Ntropolis to do the voiceovers?

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    Sinclair Broadcast Group - General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    So, outside of what happened in Baltimore yesterday, there are now two things going on with their subsidiary Ring of Honor Wrestling:

     

    1) Ring of Honor COO is open to agreements with a working agreement with the WWE and possibly going to add shows to the WWE Network

     

    Source Site: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0427/611170/roh-coo-open-to-a-working-relationship-with-wwe/

     

    2) ROH and Sinclair are interesting in purchasing TNA

     

    Source: http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0428/611193/roh-owners-interested-in-purchasing-tna-wrestling/

     

    My opinions:

     

    1) A great deal if they can get a working partnership going with WWE and put shows onto the Network. They have also been very friendly and at least are on Vince's good side instead of TNA (founded by Jeff Jarrett)

     

    2) This is a big part that concerns Wrestling Fans. Yes, TNA has been struggling to the point they got evicted from their HQ in Nashville. The owner (Dixie Carter) is pretty much going to a shoestring budget. They do garner decent ratings for POP TV (formerly TV Guide Network) but it seems the organization is on its death knell. The reason for ROH to purchase this is for the tape library and international distribution deals.

     

    As it stands now, TNA stars can compete in ROH NON-Televised cards and iPPV's (and in fact TNA wrestlers can compete anywhere except WWE, just not on another organization's television show.)

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    yea but then across some of the others properties they own..at least one station lost a big primary anchor team and another one will be loosing the GM, News Director, and Chief Meterologist. And that station will be losing a primary anchor for different reasons. Some of the stations won't have to do much reorganization but others will have to reorganize in a hurry.

    WABC - 7 Eyewitness News

    in Station Chatter

    Posted

    Attach them in an internal email... Problem solved.

     

    What's even the point. Idiots.

     

    But again why would you need to put them up there on a public site to share them internally?

     

    Kinda lazy and half assed on their creative services part...

     

    Couple of points here:

     

    1) The link to the open might have been posted on an internal email and not everyone has a Vimeo account. Also, their e-mail servers might actually block out or strip attachments if they have a certain ending and considering that there is probably a "size" limit within an enterprise setting, this was probably the easiest way to get it up for review.

     

    2) Yes it is lazy for the uploader to not set the privacy. I know for youtube there is a way there is a privacy setting to where whomever gets the link to the video can see it, but it remains unsearchable to those that might not have a link. I would think Vimeo is the same way.

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    So with all the craziness of WFAA being disaffiliated and all that..here is the long awaited list of those who took buyouts. There is one question mark and that is with KIII's ND Richard Longoria

     

    Doug Miller-KHOU

    Glenn Courts-WCNC

    Cindy Prezler-KSDK

    Steve Smith-First Coast News

    Roger Weeder-First Coast News

    Joe Becker-KGW

    Melissa Swan-WHAS

    Diana Pierce-KARE

    Allen Costantini-KARE

    Mike Roberts-KSDK

    Keith Whitney-WXIA

    Donna Lowry-WXIA

    Kevin Rowson-WXIA

    Lee Van Ameyde-WZZM

    Dennis Bounds-KING

    Jean Enerson-KING

    Jeff Renner-KING

    Linda Byron-KING

    Steve McKay-WLBZ

    Joe Cupo-WCSH

    Joe Flanagan-WVEC

    Velma Scaife-WVEC

    Mark Murray-KVUE

    Dave Wirth-WTSP [Thanks to AJClementeFan]

    Richard Longoria-KIII [NEWS DIRECTOR?]

    Frank Volpicella-KVUE [NEWS DIRECTOR]

    Patti Smith-KVUE [GENERAL MANAGER]

    TEGNA Broadcasting and Digital General Discussion

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    Yesterday FTVLive reported on the pettiness of TEGNA management about their union employees. Union employees will not be reimbursed for parking fees at the new KING 5 studio nor are they able to access an employee discount program for major purchases. Today the story got picked up by Gawker bringing the issue to a larger audience.

    They actually let their primary on-air team take the buyout? That's just bad business....

     

    Yes..but KING 5 has not been a great place of business in the past few months you know ever since what happened with the unions.

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    Out & About

    in General TV

    Posted

    Jon Brady is the new ND for XETV-6 CW San Diego. Jon comes from KING-5 .

     

    I have no clue what to he did at KING.

     

     

    EatNews: He was Executive Producer at KING 5 and was also the news director at Q13 in Seattle. Great pickup by XETV

    The Hearst Thread

    in Corporate Chat

    Posted

    But I think the big part of that might be because they are now sharing space with the Savannah Morning News.

     

    There could be some complications with that and plus the station isn't as fully staffed as some of the other stations that Hearst has taken over.

    Out & About

    in General TV

    Posted

    If I was CBS, I would be more than happy not to produce news if my current programming was paying the same or more (profit margin) to my bottom line.

     

    Not only that, FOX 2, WDIV 4 and WXYZ 7 are well entrenched and when WWJ 62 did try, they got killed for it.

     

    So its an easier choice NOT to produce news and save the money (or really the profit losses) and just invest in good syndicated programming.

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