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Wouldn't CBS be unhappy about that? Much of the reason CBS even bothers with a morning show seems to be for the soft power that comes in having clips from interviews and such circulating. It makes the network look important, like Today and GMA make NBC and ABC look important. What might that do to Nexstar's relationship with CBS?

They own a bunch of non-commercial licenses that I can't imagine it would be easy to strip of the non-com designation to widen the pool of potential buyers...unless it's more advantageous to donate them instead of selling them as prime real estate.

Telemundo must be big business for them - or, at least, it has a ton of upside!

Any idea why?

Do they not know their own history? Have they forgotten that this is how they killed UPN? (And arguably got the CW created in the first place?)

I get the impression that NewsNation isn't thought of too highly at Nexstar stations...

It also comes off like an indictment of Nexstar's whole approach... Also is WBTS actually a factor?

When Viacom originally struck the deal to buy Paramount Communications, the planned name was "Paramount Viacom International." Then the bidding war with Barry Diller ensued and somehow the rebrand ended up being scuttled. Sumner was very attached to the name "Viacom." I have to wonder if dropping the name is intended to communicate a clean break from him.

Because as the big chains have learned over the last decade, you can replace proven syndicated product with cheap substitutes and people will keep watching. /s

Why would they care about that?

It's not a "waste of space" if you own it.

WOI and WZDX both use TEGNA's preferred sans serif in their branding: Proxima Nova!

They want the web presence...

@Samantha says hi...

And what if he didn't?

Sometimes I forget that the average viewer doesn't memorize callsigns like we geeks do. Those horrible domains hadn't even occurred to me as a problem, so much as just stupid.

I believe it was The WB that gave Sinclair the sweetheart affiliation deal. The network, famously averse to compensation, agreed to fork over $64 million to Sinclair over a ten-year period in exchange for affiliations!

They can't have a Dabl station on a plum channel number but ION can just keep on doing what they do...

Can't believe Weigel lost ground to themselves...

Somehow I hadn't heard about River Mile before now... Surprised Kroenke's actually seeming to gain any traction with it! People seem to consider Elitch's this beloved institution, even though it's...really not great. Also I have never set foot inside KCNC's building.

Do they need a new building? I don't understand why there's such a hunger here to knock down facilities that are "old." NBC shows off 30 Rock like a prized heirloom, but everybody else's old digs? Gotta go!

I'm honestly surprised Scripps hasn't replaced it with a more suitable facility already. The Communications Center is hideous, sure, but there must be some sort of KLZ nostalgia at play here...it's the oldest active broadcast facility in Denver, isn't it? And channel 7's been in it for most of its existence...

Oh that would make too much sense. Give them another ten years or so to get a clue.

I did mean ION, yes. I know they were after ION's signals and spectrum, but the thing they trumpeted most of all was ION's national advertising share. Makes me wonder how much COVID battered local advertising... Scripps must have felt so lucky that they bought Katz in 2017!

They're that centralized, huh? I figured they'd operated on autopilot for a while...