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Isn't it also being threatened by sea level rise?

Households can have more than one person in them.

It'd be the first time I heard "sunset" used that way without any seriousness...

Isn't INNOVATE (HC2) not interested in buying more TV stations?

CBS seems to be trying to pattern their whole group on KCNC and their revived WWJ news department. Unfortunately for them, the big-market glamour stations have been spinning their wheels in the mud for ages, and the CBS O&O group has a long history of not being particularly well-run. They try to pattern the group after WCCO or KCNC but the glamour-market stations can't seem to wash off the stains. I've been discontented with the CBS O&O rebrands precisely because people talked them up as though they would bring about world peace, and I don't like how the likes of KCNC and WCCO get lumped in with WCBS or WBBM, but the fundamentals of the approach are solid.

Fox doesn't even mention what stations they own on their own website anymore...

Paramount's trying to get the Skydance deal done, and they don't expect that to close until September of next year. So it would surprise me if they were interested in buying any stations.

Is that why local TV stations hardly ever seem to promote the diginets on their other subchannels?

Legally they've been "Gray Media Group" for years.

Foot the bill for a bunch of their more expensive movies, produce Grace and Frankie...

I feel like you're ignoring the movie and TV libraries Paramount owns - which would be the real attraction. But a Big Tech firm being interested in that would undermine a key principle of the Streaming Wars™: that content is interchangeable and ultimately disposable.

No deal has been announced yet.

Not even Pax TV got to own all its affiliates. The dream of the CW being all O&Os doesn't sound feasible to me. Again, I point to UPN. After Viacom bought Paramount, they dumped all their NBC and CBS affiliates to make room for more UPN affiliates. If you want to own a network you had better go all-in on it.

The entire McGraw-Hill group sold for $212 million in 2011. I don't understand how prices are determined.

Given how Sinclair's stock is structured that would be difficult at best...

I don't think they were ever on the market per se, but their inclusion in the Inyo deal was conditioned on the WPIX deal closing before the Ion deal. I don't know if another sale to Inyo would pass muster right now. The FCC of 2020 was much more permissive than the FCC is now.

WPIX is a V. They own a ton of Ion stations that take up a lot of cap space for them. Though they might not have to unload too many stations given that all WPIX would do would double WPXN's cap hit.

WAAY was a Raycom/Calkins overlap. Nexstar had to sell WFFT and WTHI as overlaps from the Media General buyout. I'm not sure why they dumped KQTV and forewent KIMT and WLFI but I guess every little bit of cap room helped.

I didn't say there was a problem. I suggested that was what they should do.

Can't Nexstar just buy WPIX and unload whatever stations they need to unload in order to make room for it? Because selling WPIX off to somebody else just smacks of Fox buying WWOR and KCOP in the Chris-Craft deal and thus having their hand on UPN's throat.

Or they could shop them around instead of automatically putting them into the black box that is streaming?

My first thought was Mobile-Pensacola... Is that part of New Orleans' TV territory?

Aren't a lot of Gray stations in markets where Scripps and Inyo plan to claw back the Scripps Networks when the current deals are up?

What good is it doing sitting in a warehouse when it could be out there in the culture for people to partake in? We talk an awful lot about money, money, money, but not so much about the social or cultural value of things.

Balking when it's time to renew. Also, Atlanta is a huge market. A top ten market. CMV fare can air elsewhere, but if it can't get a clearance in the market otherwise, that's what WUPA's for. It might look like a useless hunk of junk on the outside, but there's probably plenty of reasons we don't see for them to keep it. And if they gave it up, there would be no easy way back into Atlanta for them.