tyrannical bastard

Has Scripps picked up any NBA teams yet? Curious to see where the Cavaliers end up one FanDuel goes back to its home planet. More than likely they'll end up with Gray on their Rock Sports channel co-owned by Dan Gilbert.

It could certainly lead to it's demise one day. Other groups may adopt the "Scrippscast" approach of an edited newscast of packages and a live weather hit or breaking news if it warrants. Much of the content is rehashed anyway so this approach may be more plausible in the near future.

Viewers be damned. All CBS cares about is the money.

This move is the latest confirmation that CBS simply doesn't care about their viewers or affiliates. All they care about is money in the Skydance era. They'll drop an affiliate in a heartbeat if they get a better offer from someone else, or have the means to go it alone (like in Atlanta). Non-CBS or Paramount content is getting pushed aside in favor of their own shows. Isn't this why we had the fin-syn rules before? CBS News is being dismantled even further to make themselves look good to dear leader. And if some huckster like Byron Allen is throwing money to get his third-rate repeats on....CBS happily obliges. I can't wait until Let's Make a Deal is cancelled for one of Byron Allen's "courtroom drama" shows....

Great to see CBS doubling down on their stupidity. On the bright side, maybe this will finally bankrupt Byron Allen once and for all.

Can you imagine if (The company unit formerly known as Tegna operated by Nexstar) totally dumps the WNEP Music?

Any remedy to this deal may result in a Nexstar footprint that may be different as it was before they acquired the Tegna stations, basically giving them the right to divest stations and hang onto different ones. Case in point, Denver. Let's say they're either forced to divest KUSA or KDVR. They hang onto KUSA to pair with KWGN, and let's say Fox buys back KDVR and gets KTVD. It's a win-win since KUSA gets KWGN to expand to, and KDVR and KTVD can be a Fox/Fox+ combo like in other places they have a duopoly. I'll leave the rest to the speculatron as Nexstar may be forced to make choices between their top stations.

DirecTV's response: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.484734/gov.uscourts.caed.484734.97.0.pdf Of note: "As the Court recognized, Nexstar could have entirely avoided the need for a hold-separate order had it simply 'waited to complete the acquisition until after this Court’s ruling on Plaintiff’s claims.' Nexstar dedicates most of its Notice to bemoaning the consequences of its own hasty actions."

Cry me a river Nexstar. You broke it, you bought it, you fix it when it's ruled you should not have been able to buy it.

I can see why it was one of the ACTUAL divestitures. Probably the only one that mattered versus the others, and the many more that should have been marked for re-sale. Who would have thought that in 30 years, WRTV would be tanked, WXIN and WTHR racing to the top of the market, WTTV luring CBS from WISH, and WISH being cast off from being LIN's "flagship" station to a local owner who has done far more harm than good in recent years.... Sinclair is probably kicking themselves for selling out all those years ago...

Even worse, they were still running old WRTV promos. One of them was for their investigations unit, that still had Rachel Wilkerson in it! (She left WRTV several months ago)

The only molecule of tolerability is that they restored the "6" that Scripps took away. This is giving me sub -Temu vibes all around....

Dujuan McCoy is a special kind of awful. I know WRTV has been the red-headed stepchild of Indianapolis for a long time, but for it to go like this is brutal. The worst thing about it, this is what local owners are doing to TV stations. The same can be said in Fort Myers with the McBride Family. Now there are still good owners out there like the people who own WFMJ and Capital Broadcasting in Raleigh, but the entire industry is still doninated by companies like Nexstar who are spreading awful in an unprecedented way.

Bottom line, if the networks walk away from Nexstar, the stations will be virtually worthless and won't command any decent money in the retransmission game. They'll be stuck as a broadcaster having to go back to the old ways of making as much money from advertising as possible. And having three or four stations in a market without a network affiliations? That's a lot of programming and time to fill.

I guess Perry is going all-in for the FAFO route. When the networks decide to leave, he'll realize that it's the networks (with all of their live events) that drive in the viewers, and not all of his inbred, self-serving, advertiser-driven drivel. And as for stations like WANF and WPLG, how's that going for them? Could it be done several times over in every market Nexstar serves? While a network like NBC may take issue to not using their fed content in local newcasts, they will blast them if they willingly deny any network special reports fed by NBC News.

I see a lot of future CW O&Os....this move should not be sitting well with NBC. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2026/3/30/nexstar-tells-stations-to-cut-nbc-news-channel And once the Tegna stations are included in this...that includes WCNC. Isn't NBC News Channel (this service) literally next door to their studios in Charlotte?

Ratings usually parallel market share, so markets that seem to combine any of the top 4 with or without an existing -opoly are likely to be divested if the courts get their way. Now in a place like Dallas where WFAA/KFAA and KDAF are, they're likely safe because the latter two stations don't hold a candle to WFAA's reach and market share.

And I thought the Paul & Jan era of TBN was bad..... Can someone show me somewhere in the bible where Trump was anointed by Jesus Christ himself, and that Christians love Dr. Phil, MMA, and whatever garbage TBN is trying to pass off as "Christianity?" CBN is no better. Newsmax2 is a diginet they carry on their stations.

Hopefully any states that intervene will prevail, and any former Tegna operations that are in the same markets as Nexstar (that would have qualified as divestitures in prior times) will be forced to sell to an unrelated third party.

Here's hoping this is just some blithering incompetence on their end, instead of a sign of things to come...

Not to mention the FCC and DOJ still made them divest stations to alleviate any market share or consolidation concerns. Tegna was a major beneficiary of this, grabbing affected stations in many places where both Tribune and Nexstar had a strong presence.

I can only imagine how pissed the people at Sinclair must be since their antics were kept in check by regulators and government officials, while Nexstar is getting a free pass from everyone.

It's clear that Nexstar is moving forward to make their mark as quickly as possible. The best thing that can be done is for as many people to cancel their pay TV services. Starve Nexstar where it hurts. Time to break this system that Nexstar perpetuated turning a free product into a bigger revenue stream than advertising. And to be honest, as the networks demand more and more for even less product (the rise of live sports is getting WAY out of hand), They can take a hit too. Yes, it will hurt the other owners and operations, but maybe this will force them into a more sustainable business model.

I can't wait until they decide to pre-empt someone's show or raise the rates on a pay TV provider... This should be a warning to all of us when it happens to raise hell why this merger should have never happened in the first place. Maybe it will cost them a network or two. Then they get a better spot to put the CW on.

I can only imagine had the Meredith-Media General deal gone through. And if so, how long would have Kim been in the picture? But I have a feeling Kim and all of the other spinoffs of Cox are circling around Sinclair or vice versa....