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Given all of the potential overlap, it may accelerate the networks to overhaul their schedules to accommodate for opening up the 10pm/9pm hour for local news. Given the patchwork of affiliate crossovers, if it's a combo of ABC, NBC, and CBS, one shoe may have to drop so that a market can spread their late news between stations instead of simulcasting the same thing. If Nexstar lands another network (like CBS), then it's a problem they can solve themselves.

Maybe this consolidation is all just a ploy to drum up some extra cash. If Tegna sells out to a better offer, they have to cough up $120 million to Nexstar. If Nexstar can't close the deal if the feds deny it, they have to cough up $125 million to Tegna. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/tv-broadcaster-nexstar-to-acquire-rival-tegna-for-3point54-billion.html Maybe that's why Sinclair and Allen Media were kicking the tires and acting like buyers....trying to score some extortion cash to keep the lights on?

Sinclair deserves to be bought out. Their employees deserve a better owner, and the viewers deserve one as well. Hopefully the next one is any sort of improvement.

We can only hope that Nexstar will assume the stronger stations as they have usually done in past mergers, aside from having operational preference for ones they're embedded in like WYOU/WBRE. But to fathom a case like Nexstar favoring WGNO/WNOL over WWL/WUPL is even more tragic than how Tegna destroyed them in the first place. The networks are going to have their say or Nexstar will be in deep trouble if they shut down their more successful stations in favor of their inferior operations.

Makes me wonder about whether or not WKYC or WJW keeps their building. While WKYC is a much newer and more modern facility on Lakeside (Tom Beres Way) that opened in 2001, WJW has been on South Marginal (Dick Goddard Way) since the 1970s when Storer built their only non-colonial style building to house a TV station in. WBNX is merely a formality out of the WJW facility and no longer has any presence on the Ernest Angley complex it operated out of before in Cuyahoga Falls. Either way, you can bet WOIO/WUAB will be jumping at buying a vacant studio facility whatever it is, and getting the HELL out of the basement of Reserve Square.

Also in Austin..where KXAN and KVUE are the top 2 stations in a growing city that's also Texas's state capitol. Add all of the other stations that Nexstar already owns there (KBVO, KNVA) and you have a definite conflict and market share issue.

There was once a saying that 4 and 6 do not come close to equaling 10 in Columbus. Nowadays, do 4 and 10 come close to equaling 6? I guess it's a wait and see to how far 10 has fallen under Tegna, and if 4 has actually recovered under Nexstar. Before, 4 and 10 dominated and often traded first place between each other.

It's going to take a spinoff company and a blind trust to pull this off, at the very least. The overlap licenses will go into a blind trust and Nexstar will have to create a spinoff company to run the excess stations. That's if that's even legal given the current and future regulations about to go down. If National Amusements controlled both Viacom and CBS before and after their (re) merger.... Still, the networks are going to have their say, especially with Nexstar exercising every opportunity to put the CW on their own airwaves. Maybe they'll take their ball and go home like they did in Atlanta. Places like DC and Dallas aren't going to be a major issue since the Nexstar moves will be of minimal market share. Markets like Indianapolis, Cleveland, Little Rock, Columbus, St. Louis, Harrisburg, Scranton, San Diego, Tampa, New Orleans, Des Moines, Charlotte, Greensboro, Norfolk and some others raise market share issues to the point of total market control. We could see a quintopoly in Little Rock and Nexstar owning ALL 3 major stations in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre with WNEP joining the fold.

This is going to be a regulation nightmare. Regardless of any forthcoming FCC action, antitrust issues are going to force some divestitures for sure. I knew the Sinclair Tegna deal was too good to be true... Now who's going to put Sinclair out of their misery?

YouTube TV is still carrying WANF. However you have to re-add the channel since CBS is now WUPA. Since that's an existing station with prior carriage, no action should be needed. They're also carrying the Peachtree Sports Network in addition to WPCH.

Sinclair's diginets are crap. If anything, the "real estate" will be sold and the buyer will totally reprogram them to something useful.

When even a network like Ion is making more of a name for itself by landing a lot of women's sports. It's basically been a rerun farm for most of it's existence after the Paxson era.

The question is, who is more desperate...Tegna or Sinclair? Maybe if Tegna takes control of Sinclair, it will all come crashing down. Unless there is a divine intervention, Sinclair will never get control of Tegna (or any more stations for that matter)...

By the time the USA Network was scoring hits of its own, it was already under the control of NBCUniversal and benefited from some of their castoffs. Frankly, nothing has really led me to watch them for any reason in recent years/decades. The only thing was back in the 90s when they ran all of those old game shows in the afternoons

If it's anything like the "Mr. Delicious" character cooked up by the Rax Roast Beef chain, they'll be doomed for sure.

Yuck. It looks like another one of those "fake news" channels. Of course, take that what you will, being that the other channels are not part of the "lame-stream" media. Since CNN was driven into the ground by themselves (and Jeff Zucker), there's not really a true news channel out there anymore, and any one that claims itself as one is woefully blind. Losing the link to NBC News is not going to help their cause.

The deal likely sets in stone any branding standards that the Fox affiliates have to abide by. Aside from stations like WBRC, many will have a tough time trying to rebrand like many of Gray's other stations.

Well, it's good to hear that the market still has 2 ABC affiliates, since "ABC 7" is still kicking down in Sarasota. That's going to be a tough sell for Gray whenever they choose to de-brand like they've done with many of their stations across the country. With all of the "pending" mergers and consolidation that could happen any day now if Cox goes bye-bye what that could mean for the "Action News" trademark.... Whoever gets it... Hopefully WPVI keeps paying it... Could they riot in the streets like they did in 1996 when MCTYW was changed?

Looks almost like "Uncle Ant" one of the lesser-known characters from the short lived "Itchy & Scratchy & Friends" hour....

MyNetworkTV basically. A branding package and a programming block that can be aired as is, bounced around, or split in half. WATL tried the primetime news and it failed. How bad were the ratings?

I wonder in MPB's pulling of PBS, would a willing broadcaster pick up some programming on their stations? WAPT aired Sesame Street prior to the creation of MAETV, now known as MPB. WNDU was another station that did the same, being owned by Notre Dame itself probably helped things, before WNIT signed on for Michiana. And a fun fact about Mississippi Public Broadcasting.... One of their early shows was Clyde Frog. Most of us know him as Eric Cartman's toy and sometimes sidekick on South Park.

Without CPB, what kind of infrastructure will there be for PBS and NPR itself? It will basically be a group of stations sending programming to each other. NPR is more centralized than PBS, so changes may be the most apparent there. Key member stations (WETA, WQED, WNET, WGBH, etc...) produce a lot of PBS's programming, so the member stations may have to create a cooperative to feed programming to each other.

When WBNX lost the CW under the Ernest Angley management, that was tied to a default the ministry had with one of their investors. They were originally under contract through 2021 and WB/CBS cut the deal with WUAB that's up in September. Then Nexstar bought the CW, and then WBNX.

I have to wonder if all these CW moves are pure contract expirations, or did the stations do something egregious to trigger Nexstar to pull the affiliation? These days, all it takes is a station or group to balk at the terms, let alone default on them.

Sinclair is dumber than Nexstar. First Stirr...now NewsOn? I really hope some two bit private equity firm buys Sinclair simply to drive them out of business entirely.