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So, they'll be sharing space with iHeart Media in that facility, even though they'll basically have a floor all to themselves.

The new studio is finished as of February. It's just a matter of finishing up some technical stuff before they can fully broadcast from there.

Wrong thread for that.

Not a bad choice considering they usually put out very good quality sets. WABC's new digs remind me of the recent NBC Nightly News set in a way just before they moved everything to Studio 1A (right down to the floating 7 in the ceiling).

You misheard that, as the anchor said their new studio is just a few blocks away [from their soon-to-be-former home near Xavier University of Louisiana]. The intent was always to have the place ready in time for Super Bowl Sunday, and by the looks of things, they're set to start broadcasting from there no later than after the game is over on Sunday. EDIT: From political analyst Robert Collins' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BBp7qV5nz/

Locally-owned is a misnomer these days in a broad sense, especially with all of the mergers that have happened over the last two decades. While some of the smaller groups who own a TV station in the same market where they are headquartered have managed to weather the storm (i.e., Capitol with WRAL, Graham with WDIV, Sunbeam with WSVN, Bahakel with WCCB, etc.), they have the deep pockets and/or resources to do so, and could've cashed out at any time, but chose not to. Others are not so fortunate.

Something Nexstar would probably consider doing as a workaround to having actual duopolies in some markets.

And if they aren't sending those graduates there (or to WCBI), many of them will either wind up working at one of the stations in Memphis or Jackson, MS. It's bad timing also when you consider groups like TEGNA have been making cuts (WATN/WLMT recently saw two meteorologists leave for other markets).

Kinda figured that Imagicomm would ultimately decide to cash out after a few years. Outside of INSP and a production company that makes direct-to-video films, them owning TV stations didn't really make much sense other than just holding assets for a company in Cox/Apollo that was looking to dump stuff in order to make its own portfolio more attractive to potential would-be suitors. With ownership rules expected to be loosened (if not outright repealed), nothing should be considered off the table as to who buys who. There may be a trade or two along the way (I'll discuss the rest over in the Speculatron).

Could you do any better than what Rey had been churning out?

TIL the GrayONE package was not simply just a Matt Quinn job, but was a project done jointly with Tristan Bresnen. Videos of Tristan's work can be found on his new website: http://www.redterror.tv

Logically speaking, if the spun-off NBCU properties are gonna be under a separate entity, going with Sky Networks as a name makes sense (Sky News America, Sky Business, etc.).

WKRN has switched to the updated KOIN pack as of today. I have to take a look at WATE later to see if they made any tweaks to the WPIX package they started using a few months ago.

Is this area still in use? The last time I saw it on-air was when TWC was recovering from a malware attack a few years ago.

I would've split America's Morning Headquarters into two 4-hour shows instead of having it run a whole 8 hours under one singular name, but maybe that's just me. Have AMHQ be from 6-10am (5-9am Central) while re-titling the 10am-2pm (9am-1pm Central) block as "Daily Recharge" (a weekday version of Weekend Recharge).