tyrannical bastard

Even by WKYC bringing Leon Bibb back, the TEGNA-zation kind of weirds me out, seeing as how WKYC has, for the most part, been unscathed by corporate mandates. It actually makes WEWS just a tad more watchable, even though that station is a shadow of its former self. I can't wait to see what Gray does to 19.... they'll probably just make it even more mediocre than it is now....

Has Dick Goddard ever appeared on TV since his retirement? I know he committed the rest of his career to the "four foots" (animal welfare) that has been his passion for decades...but it's a good thing he hang it up before all of the ownership drama over Tribune and Sinclair heated up..(and about to go back to the drawing board any day now....) I still think Robin Swoboda still has one more TV stint in her....and WOIO is the only place she hasn't worked at yet. John Loufman is the only Cleveland TV personality I know of that has the distinction of working at ALL 4 stations in some form over time. He may have been a "floater" who had short-term gigs to fill in-between people and when others were on vacation. Cleveland had a bunch of them it seems in the 1990s...was it a union thing?

Springfield is FAR short of the 8 voices that can allow a duopoly to take place. There's KYTV (which absorbed KSPR), KOLR/KOZL, KWBM, KRBK and KOZK. Only 5 voices. Methinks the loophole is that the COL of KRBK is in Osage Beach...which has a tiny portion in the Jefferson City/Columbia market....where Nexstar has no stations.

Not good especially after KYTV basically shut down any remaining semblance of KSPR's news department... It may have been a scrappy operation, but it was needed in Springfield. Nexstar is making a bold move in this time of heightened scrutiny over cross-ownership. Even worse, to sail this deal through, one of the signals may have to be terminated (KOZL or KRBK)...unless KRBK's distributed frequency network doesn't count as a full-powered station.

Well durn....I was looking forward to the resurrection of TBD.... Oh wait... What about those grand plans for a national news channel?

WOIO/WUAB too. Most of Northeast Ohio and the Charlotte area (on the NC side) are MAJOR TWC clusters that Charter purchased. [MEDIA=twitter]1019360631827369986[/MEDIA]

If WBNX fails, it would be one of the most visible TV station failures of our time. Usually there's a buyer waiting in the wings.. in case that happens, they usually light up some form of (worthless) programming. There's no record of foreclosure or a sherriff sale, but recent events paint a picture that the station (and ministry) defaulted on a loan took out 5 years ago.

It will be interesting to see if Nexstar is hostily acquired much like Media General was hostily acquired by Nexstar.... Given Nexstar's debt load, this could be a bigger disaster in the making....

Done and done. I've moved my two cents there.

Methinks WBNX is dunzo. The latest revelation that the buildings WBNX and the ministry have been foreclosed on means the end is near and CBS cut a deal with WUAB post haste. (Moved my thoughts to the speculatron)

More stations have launched the new platform including WTTE and WBFF.

Someone fired shots at the WKRG Studios in Mobile late Tuesday or early Wednesday... https://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/police-investigate-shots-fired-at-wkrg-building/1284019394

If Saturday morning TV was released from the grip of E/I requirements, most would probably dump the kids stuff anyways and air either news or infomercials. MAYBE a station or 2 (like PBS or the KidsClick stuff on MNTV) would have it.... Then again...if the whole commercial limits thing was relaxed, you'd have shows like these.... And if Hanna-Barbera was never sold to Turner by Taft, chances are it could have ended up under Sinclair....

WorldNow/Frankly just needs to go away ...like 5 years ago. They've become the new Internet Broadcasting System (minus the channelX0000.com sites. The thing that annoys me to the highest heaven is how distant stories are badged LOCALLY by Google searches... For example, if a Trader Joe's opens in Nashville and I'm googling it in Pensacola, then I'll get a search result from FOX10TV.com with the WSMV.com story seamlessly integrated into the WALA site. If it was a generic story, my hopes would be up thiking Trader Joe's was opening locally (when it happened in Nashville all along...)

Theoretically, yes. Adding Meredith would have a group in the low 30s of percentage. The only forseeable conflict would be Flint/Saginaw.

This is for the main AM show 5 days a week! It gets even dicier on the noon show where it could be either Darwin or Kelly solo anchoring, with either Jake or Kelly as the meteorologist....and some days Kelly Foster does both by herself!

Then...you have stations like WPMI that make you keep score with their morning anchor team, since they have Kelly Foster doing double duty as a meteorologist and co-anchor to Darwin Singleton two days a week, and as a co-anchor joined by Jake Dunne the other 3 (who works on the weekends and fills in for the often-missing chief Chris Dunn). Translation...they were too cheap to hire a replacement for Kelly Jones when she left and gave Kelly Foster some anchor time....

While looking for the infamous Marvin Zindler quote, I came across this "tribute" from competitor KPRC, nearly a decade after his passing....

At least with WDLI, this means that they're going away for good. Ion is getting the license and the ability to take back WVPX to themselves, essentially.....unless they want to air even MORE Ion subchannels on zombie station WDLI!?!?!?!? Had the auction not happened, I bet WDLI and other TBN's would have sold out, eventually. The only beneficiary of the proceeds is the bankrupt owners of TBN probably throwing the money at their debtors.....

I guess all of the other Morris stations have "virtual" ice machines!

WSYX has a new website. It's a much simpler, more mobile-friendly layout than the current template. It appears WSYX is the only station with it as of now....not even WTTE has it yet.

Actually, since WKRG revamped their newscasts about a month ago, the WFNA 9pm show is now just another WKRG newscast and doesn't focus on Pensacola like they used to....as a whole, WKRG has stepped up their coverage of the Florida counties to Destin and has come to rely heavily on their sister stations to cover the fringes of each other's markets...

With FOUR 9pm newscasts in the Mobile-Pensacola market, you figure how long that would last..... Well, the first shoe to drop is the WPMI-produced 9pm show on their sister station, WJTC UTV 44. The final show airs tonight, and beginning on Monday, will move to a half-hour show at 7pm.

Impressive enough is someone there who survived through Stan Sanders' tenure as news director. Media General finally pulled the plug on him in 2009 amidst their cutbacks...

In Nexstar's defense....the only issue is that Scott took their video from WMBB's website, and posted it to his FTVLive YouTube channel. Had he simply hyperlinked the original video, it would be a non-issue. But Tom Lewis has blown this way out of proportion. Scott has had his run-ins with people over the years about things on his site, but this has to be the worst I've ever seen. He really hit a raw nerve with him. And based on people who used to work for him, it's not a surprise... At one time (when he was at WJHG)...he not only was the main anchor (for 6 & 10) and news director, but also the co-host of the top-rated radio morning show in Panama City! If that doesn't inflate who you are...