tyrannical bastard

Sinclair could be nice about it, where they could be willing to sell a working station with staff, but it seems much more likely they could be difficult, choosing to lay off their employees and liquidate the equipment, and hopefully let the affected employees re-apply with the new owner. Such a situation would be notable as it would be a public case on how they conduct themselves as a company.

No, Deerfield holds the option to sell. The only way is if they are stripped of their license, or someone is able to buy them out of it. Chances are, Sinclair would walk away with their people and facility (pretty much ALL of the employees except for the ones employeed by the licensee directly, not to mention the facility, equipment and other "non-license assets") so it's a lose-lose situation where the new owner would essentially have to rebuild from scratch with a new staff and facility.

Unfortunately, it's likely the other way around. The licensee contracts with the SSA partner to do their bidding (sales, operations, newscasts, etc..), and the licensee is ultimately responsible for the successful operation and majority of programming of the station.

Doubtful. If this goes on much longer, I'd question Stephen Mumblow (and the others) ability to hold a broadcast license. It's like they don't care and there's nothing Sinclair can do about it.

Touche.... Since Starz is a premium service, it's already available by itself and likely costs the same no matter how you get it. My old Xfinity package had the StarzEncore channels and HBO, so I might be a little peeved if this would have happened on my watch....

Oh pretty please...... I don't normally root for hostile takeovers, but SOMETHING needs to be done with Tegna and quickly!! https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/10/16/breaking-tegna-looking-at-possible-hostile-takeover-attempt They've ruined far too many of their stations to the point where ANYTHING would be an improvement!

I would imagine WDAM will be switching soon....could they be getting the WLOX look? They simulcast WLOX (ABC)'s 4pm show on their ABC subchannel.

He won. https://www.nola.com/news/article_634f8746-eac7-11e9-b8e9-434e80f09c48.html Seems ironic that he's now involved in politics, especially when he had to distance himself from the "other" Scott Walker who was governor of Wisconsin at the time.

The WCOV/WSFA arrangement only lasted a year or two. WAKA has handled it since 2011 and WSFA's 9pm show has aired on their subchannel and on WDFX in Dothan while Raycom owned them. Bahakel is another holdout in this consolidated media landscape. Either one could be a target for Nexstar, and that would give them EVERY market in Alabama, since Gray is not in Mobile. Interestingly enough, WHOA/WNCF was briefly owned by Media General. Had that stuck, Nexstar could have already been in the market.

This is a watershed moment for the city of Montgomery given the city's past history in the Civil War and Civil Rights movement. Now that Woods is out of it, he can go back to focusing on running his TV station. Between Gray's dominance and Bahakel running everything else, his ownership is sorely needed.

Update...the runoff was yesterday, and Woods lost in a 2 to 1 landslide to Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed, making him Montgomery's first African-American mayor.

Pretty much the benefit of newspaper ads (the percent off coupon) that was a staple of department store ads is online or mobile. TV wise, these ads went from local, to regional, and national. Stores like Belk and other smaller chains just went to the local TV station when they were having a "moonlight madness sale" and they were locally produced ads. Even Sears and JCPenney marketed down to the local level like this, alongside their national ad campaigns. As the stores began merging, so did their advertising, and it became more image-like instead of the one-offs for an event or two.... Nowadays, it's on the high regional level. Macy's is all national ads (even in places that don't have them)

Being a repository of subchannels is probably the best hope for that station, especially if they can orient it to adjacent markets. If (and likely when) WBNX ends up in a similar situation, Marquee would be a good owner especially if they can get it on the cheap. They already have 5 subchannels and could easily add more if they do away with the main feed.

WRLH is probably bound under contract of their affiliation to air a newscast...so they will take what they can get from WWBT. If not, Fox goes bye-bye and Sinclair is SOL in Richmond. It makes it more awkward since Sinclair has been denied THREE TIMES from getting WTVR. First from the required divestiture when Lincoln merged with Raycom, then the failed Sinclair-Tribune merger, and because of that, being blacklisted from acquiring the Tribune leftovers in the Nexstar merger, letting WTVR go to Scripps

There may be hope after all, especially for the former Dispatch stations, and any other station they drove (further) into the ground.....

I do see the similarites between it and the old Raycom look, in terms of the supers. Given WOIO's lack of success and Gray's habit of changing the looks frequently (once a new look comes online), it's only a matter of time before they get one too. Maybe in a year or two...

Gray is treating their much larger stations to better packages, while the smaller ones seem to be getting the "leftovers"...i.e. more dated and recycled graphic packages. I like WBTV's new look....it's clean, simple, and serves as a nice evolution from the prior Raycom look.

Their INN contract must have ran out and decided to bring news "in house" like Toledo and Wilkes-Barre getting news from South Bend.

2012 and 2013, when they ended daily production of many of their newspapers for a digital-first revamp. Alabama was really hard hit since it was essentially a merger of all their newspapers in Huntsville, Birmingham and Mobile. The ensuing job cuts resulted in an organization that decimated news coverage across all 3 papers. Even in New Orleans where these moves spawned a daily New Orleans edition of the Baton Rouge Advocate that later bought out and merged what was left of the Times-Picayune.

Gannett/Gatehouse should really make an effort to acquire the Plain Dealer from Advance. Its a pathetic shell of it's former self like the other Advance properties. They did sell the Times-Picayune to the owners of the Advocate, the paper that spawned as a local edition of the Baton Rouge daily paper when Advance took away daily editions. However, much of the TP's staff was laid off in the merger and the same could be said given Gatehouse's sizeable holdings in Ohio.

Chalk up another loss at WPMI..... Bobby Totsch, the GM is leaving for the same job at WHO-TV in Des Moines.... https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/239532/robert-bobby-totsch-named-who-gm/ This comes after the departures of Chief Meteorologist Chris Dunn, and Jake Dunne, who is now at KWCH. And the prolonged blackout on AT&T since the end of May..... I hope WHO knows what they are in for....

Seems like it's been a minute since a cable provider has had a dispute. It's more of a regional patchwork unlike Dish and AT&T since it varies market-by-market. I don't think I've ever seen Xfinity get into a dispute with any local channel, then again I'm pretty sure they just do whatever the broadcaster wants and then pass the fee along to the consumer with their broadcast TV surcharge....

Clemson too, since WLOS had the game yesterday and that's their ABC affiliate.

Crisis Averted? Sinclair has modified their AT&T page and is not threatening a blackout...Instead they are still "negotiating"... https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/att-sinclair-agree-to-an-extension-to-keep-local-abc-cbs-fox-nbc-stations-on-directv-att-tv-now-u-verse-tv-more/

Looks like the Sinclair AT&T has another "extension" as the parties are "negotiating" https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/att-sinclair-agree-to-an-extension-to-keep-local-abc-cbs-fox-nbc-stations-on-directv-att-tv-now-u-verse-tv-more/ Probably through the weekend so people don't miss all their football games......