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Within two years. Which, again, gives them plenty of time to wait for the rules to be changed so they don't have to. If they get to keep it, that is.

Welcome back Shop at Home Network. Now that's part of the Scripps legacy!

I mean, who built them that building? Not surprising they're still tight with Fox Corporation...

To wit. This has no byline, but it lines up with views Jessell has espoused over the years.

It sure doesn't help that most of the programming worth a damn is owned by the same companies as the major networks! Michael Eisner openly threatened ABC affiliates in 1998 and said that the likes of Disney owned all the "software"...

Could Morgan Murphy even afford to buy Hearst Television? Does Graham even want to own that many stations? Sinclair and Nexstar should have been stopped in their tracks years ago. We've been sounding the alarm about them for years and by the time anybody but us noticed it was too late.

Rich Boehne was CEO then. I believe he was also the one who lamented the "business model" when Scripps decided to shut down the Rocky Mountain News.

Isn't the combination of KOAA and KKTV holding the deal up? I feel like any iteration of that deal that calls for KOAA to be combined with KKTV, or WILX to be combined with WSYM, isn't going to pass muster, at least, not without years of delays (like Gray's effort to buy KDLT and merge it with KSFY)... Gray's deals to acquire stations from Block and Allen have also progressed slowly, almost assuredly for the same reason (for one thing, Gray would own three licenses in Louisville, adding Block's WDRB and WBKI to its own WAVE)

Dumping J! and Wheel was definitely a harbinger. They were rightly lambasted for letting them go at the time and that decision just gets worse all the time.

KMGH has been the sick man of this market for the last 50 years or so. KBTV blew past them in the 1970s and has been on top for almost the whole time since then.

The endlessly copy-pasted passages in the paperwork got so grating and repetitive that I couldn't stand to read all of it. It wasn't like what Scripps and Gray sent to the FCC over their swap with regards to market dynamics, it was just the same thing over and over again with figures they may or may not have pulled out of their ass and the same find-and-replace writing.

Circle City already has an operation in the market and when companies get squeezed out like Scripps apparently is, those buyers tend to have the edge. It helps that McCoy doesn't have any stations outside of the Indy market anymore, so his company would pose little threat to Scripps with the addition of WRTV. I can't believe this is the company that used to own HGTV and the Food Network...

I can't remember the last time any media company listened to these analysts. They've called for Disney to spin off ESPN so many times, and that's never happened. They were calling for Time Warner to spin off HBO in 2015, and that never happened.

I thought that Allen just licensed the Weather Channel name and logo and that The Weather Company was owned by Francisco Partners...

We also skew pretty young, don't we? Also, what is a HUT?

I know there hasn't been a lot of mourning of the old Brutalist Fortress in this community considering the general disdain for "old buildings," but as somebody who's been used to its presence, it's going to be weird to see it gone...

As somebody who lives in the market where Gannett/TEGNA's baby is, it's so strange to me to hear of TEGNA's reputation for butchering stations in other markets.

What changed? I remember a decade ago people said things like "CBS probably makes more money off KMOV being an affiliate than they would owning it again" amid Les Moonves' push for more and more reverse comp money...

They don't seem interested in doing anything to win consumers over. I never hear anything about one of these station groups launching a diginet suited to showing off the 4K and Atmos or whatever. A Discovery HD Theater sort of thing.

It also just suits the macho ethos that Paramount and Skydance both share.

Sumner never got rid of the name "Viacom," why would David Ellison get rid of the "Skydance" name?

I remember what a mess it was when they merged KWGN with KDVR... Not eager for that sort of thing to happen again!

Didn't Paramount get rid of their stake in the CW?

They're probably after WKOW and its spawn specifically so they can combine them with the stations they already own in Wisconsin, especially since they had to let them go the first time they struck a deal involving them. Plus they would own all the ABC affiliates within Wisconsin aside from WISN.

Block has been a trash fire of a company for years and they've been looking to sell since at least last year.