mre29

Technically, it won't. KTVD is one of the stations Nexstar has already announced it'll be divesting.

I just realized something about the footer of that statement from CCB. It would look a lot better if the WNDY logo matched the other two (and if "WRTV" was in bold).

I'm sure it's been longer than a decade.

It's 2026. How are home shopping channels (on cable or otherwise) even a thing anymore?

All on the same station? I suppose the syndicator allows it because the show likely has thousands of episodes.

Now if only the channel could ditch the Dateline repeats.

Bring out the pins, needles, and baited breath.

So, will the Ion affiliation be moving to another channel or just become WNPX's tenth digital subchannel? And, yes, I said tenth.

People who work evening and don't get home till after 11:00pm might disagree with you on that.

Of course, Nexstar could simply sell a bunch of the forced divestitures to Sinclair and achieve the same ideological results.

The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking Nexstar should be allowed to go ahead with at least some of the planned divestitures ASAP. WTHR can be spun off now as it's a stand-alone station that isn't tied to a duopoly partner that Nexstar wants to keep. No technical issues involved. The Hampton Roads conflict would require moving WVBT-specific resources and employees from WAVY's building to WVEC's....or changing the plan and divesting WVEC instead. The others (KNWA, KTVD, WUPL, WCTX) are all in markets where Nexstar should be forced to divest two stations, not just one. Three of them, though (KTVD, WUPL, and WCTX), would likely have trouble being stand-alone stations and would need new duopoly partners. (I'd be surprised if Gray isn't already eying WUPL and WCTX.)

Could Nexstar's impatience cost them most if not all of the Tegna stations?

That's pretty ironic for a station with call letters that could be seen as referring to WeaTHeR.

I'm a little confused as to why Nexstar doing one thing in Indianapolis (keeping their WXIN/WTTV duopoly and divesting WTHR) but something different in Hampton Roads (splitting up WAVY and WVBT, divesting WAVY, and making a new WVEC/WVBT duopoly). Is it simply a case of WVEC bringing in more revenue via reverse transmission payments than WAVY does? Is WVEC simply higher-rated?

Hopefully the court will respond with something along the lines of, "That's not our problem. Comply anyway."

Wouldn't it be easier to convince ABC to agree to move the affiliation to WISH and make WRTV an independent?

And if Nexstar succeeds in holding on to WTHR without losing WXIN/WTTV...

What I want to know is why Scripps chose to sell to Circle City. Did no one else (Gray, Hearst, Sinclair, etc.) show any interest? Did any of them even know Scripps was looking to sell this one station?

Understood. I just wanted to be able to see the conflict markets separate from the others.

I realized I was having trouble remembering all of the markets where there are likely conflicts, so I threw together a quick reference that I have to share as a screenshot because the forum doesn't accept PDFs.

Of course, this assumes Nexstar would even be willing to let go of WUSA and/or KHOU...

In that case, I'm going to double-down on a word needing to go. "Prime" can at least be inferred to mean primetime (or close enough), so "Pulse" should get the boot.

"NonStop Local Pulse Prime" is....a mouthful. Either "Pulse" or "Prime" needs to go, but I'm not sure which. Are their newscasts in other dayparts just called "NonStop Local Pulse"? And then there's the announcer's enunciation-free delivery....

Tegna lives!

Money talks as loud as a punch in the face.