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  1. tyrannical bastard
    Add another group who wants Tegna to sell or merge.... Enter HG Vora Capital Management, who last had a stake in Tribune, and cashed it out when Nexstar took over.... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tegna-hgvora-exclusive/exclusive-hedge-fund-hg-vora-wants-tegna-to-consider-a-sale-or-merger-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1WP
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    Actual reach is 39 percent while the UHF discount brings it down to 32.
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    Standard Media has zero competition from any Tegna TV station, as each company has no stations in the same market, and even if they did, they're exempt in many places because they are low power (especially the Waypoint ones). Digital is another story, as the lines are undefined, but there's nothing stopping that. Regardless of our opinions regarding how Tegna operates it's stations, it's a company ripe for takeover, and if anyone is going to take station groups and make them bigger, or make something out of the leftovers, it's outside investors and private equity.
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    I can only imagine if Gannett remained the same company as it was before the split.... The current "Gannett" is like the rebirth of AT&T, after SBC renamed themselves when the old AT&T was sold off piece by piece. It's technically GateHouse, but under the Gannett branding. Same as Tegna being the old Gannett company and the split company keeping the Gannett name. Usually, the print side is the one to go batty. Gannett is the behemoth in this case and Tegna is treated like an upstart company. One that has trashed many of their stations and the investors are finally clamoring for them to come to their senses. Some stations are too far gone (WXIA, WTSP, WWL, WKYC), others have some hope to them (WBIR, WMAZ, WTOL), and there are the new ones that haven't had the chance to C-Clarity.....yet.
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    Looks like CBS wants complete control of this so they can start expanding their CBSN apps into these cities. Roping affiliates into it would make it more complicated and expensive, despite competing against them in Atlanta and Tampa, and "re-establishing" in Detroit.
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    Deb McDermott, the head of Standard Media worked alongside Kim in the latter years of Young and Media General, and was one of the board members Kim wanted to put on Tegna's board. If they buy their way into Tegna, Standard could be roped into it though a hostile takeover using Kim's money.
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    Meridian and Hattiesburg are the outliers, the closest Tegna station is WWL in New Orleans. Going back to Tegna, pencils have erasers, so if Standard's people get some seats on the board, maybe the "Tegna Experiment" will come to a screeching halt before more stations succumb to it.
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    Many of these stations are low-powered upstarts built for the sole purpose of bringing affiliations to markets where they previously did not exist. Hopefully bringing some scale to these stations could be a major plus for them to better compete in their markets. What you see is a lot of peeved viewers who lose an adjacent affiliate they've had for years replaced by a local one, that is grossly inferior.
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    Keep in mind that Soo Kim and Deb McDermott had the Media General and Young stations under their watch, and later merged them with Lin and if they had their way, they would have merged with Meredith instead of Nexstar forcing a hostile takeover of the above... Had Sinclair gotten Tribune, they would have gotten some higher profile leftovers. Sure, the former Citadel stations were a mess to begin with, but Tegna needs a serious intervention before they trash more stations with their so-called innovation....
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    Here we go..... https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/243396/tegna-to-fight-proposed-board-changes/ “The board is also concerned that his significant investments in and influence over other broadcasting companies would create a conflict of interest as a Tegna director. “Accordingly, the board unanimously determined that adding him to the board is not in the best interests of Tegna and its shareholders. Mr. Kim was informed of the board’s decision on Jan. 10.” I smell a Tegna-Standard Media merger in the works....and as for the the "best interest of Tegna and their shareholders"... we all know the garbage that Tegna has been putting out. Time to overhaul the board and make something out of Tegna.
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    You are correct....it is the 5th floor that the main studios are on. I believe their current WOUB News set was from Spectrum News, and the one before that came from a station in Missouri (KMIZ?) It's good to see these older sets being recycled like this for future generations to cut their teeth on.
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    Just the desk. As you can see, it's gone through many paint jobs and renovations over the years. WCPO's version of the set looks nearly identical to the one WEWS had. The weather center, monitor arrays, and the color-changing background. Part of the Ohio University J-School setup was the 2 retractable blue panels that could have been used for chroma-keying a monitor shot. I'm told the desk had to be cut in 2 in order to get it into the basement of Scripps Hall (where the studio was and the Journalism school was located at the time). When WOUB got it, it moved to the 6th floor of the RTV building into studio A, their larger studio. At least they had a freight elevator.
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    Yep, although this was just a cable newscast run by J-school students for one of their required classes. Everybody did everything from producing, assignment desk, reporting, shooting, editing, and anchoring. It even made Tosh 2.0 back in the day.
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    Swing...and a miss. Oh well, some things were better left undone. Audition may be a good tool, but it can do it's evil too. I wonder how Northeastern & Central Pennsylvanians will react to this....would this be much worse than losing the theme entirely? Let's go to Talkback 16...
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    Most importantly, it was this very desk that viral video history was made....
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    Who wants an old Scripps desk from the 80s? WOUB-TV (run by Ohio University) is retiring the desk that was last used for their high school football program. It was also used by their j-school on their daily newscast (which happens to be the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism). I believe this came from WCPO originally. If anyone is interested, or knows someone who wants this piece of history, they should contact WOUB-TV in the next week or so before it joins the big WEWS "circle 5" in the sky....
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    Due to the impending severe weather in the South this weekend.....WPMI has decided to bust out Alan Sealls two weeks early. He was introduced on-air this past weekend and did his first forecast as Chief Meteorologist earlier today at 5pm. https://mynbc15.com/news/local/severe-storms-possible-on-saturday
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    If anyone ever thought combining that god-awful C-Clarity with the WNEP National Anthem was possible.... You're welcome. mctyw tegna_mixdown.mp4
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    Hearst is either a better negotiator or was more flexible in their talks. Nexstar and the Sinclair shells? Not so much.
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    That would make KSAS one of the few stations (if not the only in the US) to have newscasts produced by all 3 of their local counterparts....at different times? The only one close to that is WWHO in Columbus, who had WCMH do their news originally (under an LMA with Outlet/NBC), WBNS (under LIN ownership) and a midnight re-run of WSYX's 11pm show under Manhan? Going back to the original KWCH deal, that was ended after they began running their own 10pm news on their CW sister station, while taping the KSAS show for airing at 10pm. KSAS balked, and live newscasts were restored until the contract expired at the end of 2011, at which time KSN took over as the news provider for KSAS. This happened about a year before Newport divested their stations, and Sinclair took over KSAS when they were broken up.
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    And hot of the presses, Dish has dropped the stations owned by Mission Broadcasting..... https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/dish-loses-18-local-tv-stations/
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    The latest on AT&T & Hearst.... https://www.multichannel.com/news/hearst-stations-go-dark-to-directv
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    It could be worse, they could have ended up with the Educational Media Foundation. One of the more notable stations they've taken over is WPLJ to replace with their satellite-fed "Christian Rock". They're like the OTA Broadcasting or ION of the radio world...sucking up stations.
  24. tyrannical bastard
    Mediacom subscribers dodged another bullet. They made good with Nexstar on a new agreement. https://www.multichannel.com/news/mediacom-nexstar-avoid-blackout This stuff is starting to get really stealthy. Should we just assume that on the last day of the year, your channels could be going away?
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    Update: Nexstar and Xfinity reach a deal: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-nexstar-appear-to-have-reached-a-deal-to-avoid-a-blackout/ As for WGN America getting yanked, I can believe it. CLTV will be ceasing operations tonight as well.
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