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Here's a better version of that link that bypasses both Facebook and bit.ly: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-25-news-announces-promotion-shiri-spear-chief-meteorologist/FZCU42VDWRHLJOWMDV6PCUCIDM/

All of them?

Of course, keeping Ion going would mean programming the network with more than just police procedurals and true-crime shows...

So, it looks like the 23 stations in question are the only stations Inyo owns. Then again, Inyo's website might not be all that up-to-date -- the most recent item on the news page is about the acquisition of those same stations.

Hmmm. Making themselves too big for Sinclair to afford? Ah, this is buried at the very end:

How many cable channels will Paramount own in the end? Hopefully, it'll be forced to divest some of them...especially CNN.

I wonder if it's a thing mostly in areas that have one area code. New Hampshire, for example, still only has one area code, 603, a number that's popped up in branding over the years.

I feel like Gray purchasing WBBJ has been mentioned at some point here on LNT.

That's what we had when we first moved here, even though Spectrum was already the cable provider. I'm guessing my town used to be in Optimum's territory but was eventually passed to Spectrum, with an agreement to keep News 12 CT on the system for a time. Weirdly, N12CT was on channel 30, while channel 12 was unused. Nowadays, we have Spectrum News NY1 on channel 1 (in addition to 1517, grouped with all of the other Spectrum News channels) and the Spanish-language version on 12, while 30 is empty.

I wonder if this is why Spectrum didn't replace News 12 Connecticut on our system with a CT-focused Spectrum News 1 last year. We got Spectrum News NY1 on cable channel 1 instead.

Good grief, it's worse than I thought.

Don't you just love it when the timing is so convenient?

Dude. Don't give them ideas.

I've never heard of it, but considering the sheer number of diginets out there, I'm not surprised.

It does sound very similar to the music CBC and its stations use. This is not a bad thing....though it might be confusing in markets up near the border.

@Georgie56's link is to this very page, but here's a better link.

Anyone else just read that in Walter Cronkite's voice?

So what did they do on Mondays? Air the previous Friday's episode? Or a cut-down version of the weekend edition (which I'm pretty sure is an hour)?

What, the Australian version?

And may WBBH/WZVN wipe the floor with WINK in the ratings.

I'm honestly surprised Hearst didn't try to purchase WLNE (and KLKN, which would've paired perfectly with KETV).

I believe the prohibition was on lists of the "Here's a list of stations" variety, not specifically bulleted lists. More importantly, though, that wasn't a list. It was a timeline in outline form. As far as I'm concerned, the prohibition doesn't apply.

Interesting that the station in question is only referred to in the article as "the Channel 46 station" (and even then only once) with no direct reference to WANF.

Not sure that's fair... . ...to New Coke.

That seems generous. Me, I look forward to CBSEN being completely and utterly buried in the ratings by ABC, NBC, CNN, MS NOW, Fox News, NewsNation, Newsmax, OAN, PBS NewsHour, BBC World News America, local stations, and every flavor of Spectrum News 1.