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#NexstarProducing is trending on Twitter. Anyone know what's going on?

Hugh Hewitt is getting a half-hour Saturday morning show. That article also references something I apparently missed when it happened: Lockup was canceled, its 25th season being its last.

Would that be considered an improvement?

So, how'd the stations rank before Sinclair bought Fisher and Tegna bought Belo?

Huh. I always figured KOMO was at least a strong 2nd, possibly even beating out KING in some time slots.

Is that why station groups tend to be sold en masse rather than piecemeal? To make it easier for the governmental agencies? That's really weird.

How can the paperwork be all that time-consuming? Do they have to do it entirely by hand and in triplicate?

So, you could say that Today's Taken Away? (Had to be said.)

Scripps already owns KJRH in Tulsa, so they wouldn't be able to buy KOTV. (And while they'd be able to buy WBNS, they wouldn't be able to outright purchase WTHR in Indianapolis since they currently own WRTV.)

I have never heard or read of this reasoning. Can you provide proof?

The FTVLive article has a good idea: Here's another idea: Have three or four reporters down there to split the work. But, then, we're talking about Nexstar here.

You could probably add Griffin (KOTV, KWTV, etc.) and Capital (WRAL) to that list.

At this point, the delay could be because of the transition the government's in right now.

GenericColumbusWebsite.com?

At first glance, I thought that satellite dish was attached to the Jeep. Also, "Weather Wrangler" is much easier to say than "ABC2News Jeep Wrangler." Just saying.

Amusingly, I read "LNT" as "LINT".

Looks like Lakana's (formerly Internet Broadcasting) is no longer involved in the sites. Has Hearst taken the work in-house?

Hearst? Tegna?

If you think that's bad, WISC still uses channel3000.com and its sister station, WKBT, still uses channel8000.com.

Maybe it'll be WFTS, with "ABC Action News" finally being ditched for something else. "ABC 28 News", anyone? "ABC Tampa Bay News"?

I'm underwhelmed. The homepage feels like it's missing content. Individual article pages are better, but they use that "scroll to the next item" gimmick that I've come to hate.

He had his phone with him on set? Weird.

I think there's a better chance of, say, Hearst buying Scripps than ABC buying Scripps or Scripps buying ABC. On the bright side, if ABC did ever decide to sell all of their stations, at least we know which two companies wouldn't be able to buy them...

Ah, a good ol'-fashioned road trip! Will it be by party bus or caravan?

Why would NBC want to do that a second time, let alone with those particular stations?