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    That was a holdover from the days before it became every conglomerate for themselves. What did UPN stand for starting in 2000?
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    He sold off 20th Century Fox, FX, and all that other stuff because he decided the streaming wars were one hurdle too many for him to clear. He's old and didn't seem to trust his kids to take the reins of 21CF as it was constituted. And, quite frankly, I think he saw that his trashy ethos didn't really jibe with the tone set by the likes of Netflix. From what I could tell, 20th and FX were low on his priority list anyway.
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    The RSNs are cable nets. Regulators had antitrust concerns over ESPN's already-dominant position in national sports rights, that adding the top RSN group to Disney's portfolio would have led to them wielding way too much power over MVPDs. I don't know how badly Disney really wanted the Fox movie operations. They bought them almost entirely for the film library, and they really wanted the TV division more, since ABC Studios wasn't as big as 20th TV.
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    I did notice that KCNC wasn't going to carry Circle in the run-up to its launch... I take it CBS is another station group that's stingy about subchannels? The diginets they own or have a stake in get the plum CBS O&O positions and everything else gets shuffled off to a duopoly partner if they have one (which KCNC doesn't)?
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    From what I remember, an earlier iteration of the Disney-Fox deal didn't include the RSNs, but Disney wanted them and they were added to the deal, adding about $22 billion to its value. I think a lot of the reason they went to Disney and were subsequently spun off was because Murdoch didn't want to lower the amount of Disney holdings he would receive, since the deal was originally all-stock and I believe he opted to take stock and not cash when the cash component was added. The Disney-Fox deal in general seems to have broken media.
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    Chris Ripley has, time and time again, demonstrated this company's delusions of grandeur and utter lack of any knowledge of its place in the media landscape, or the landscape itself, and this strikes me as no different. To hear it from Sinclair, you'd think they were a cross between the modern Disney and '90s Time Warner.
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    I mean, growth can be hard to come by when you’ve slammed head-first into the ownership cap.
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    Don't they still have the Disney ESPN money too? Money on top of money...
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    I wonder why there aren't more fans of the Indians or Rays feeling peeved? The Astros beat both of them in the postseason... (Then again, most MLB teams don't seem to have super-vocal fanbases)
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    The comic book illustrations are another effort to be cool, piggybacking off all the superhero movies and such...
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    I mean, '90s nostalgia is big right now... If there are Chiefs or Niners logo fonts they're probably proprietary. That sans and ITC Cheltenham aren't it.
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    They named Fred after him, which always struck me as odd, because Hanna-Barbera already had a Fred (Flintstone). He also told them to do a series of shorts starring Moby Dick, the crime-fighting whale. Who had a sidekick, a seal named Scooby...who was also voiced by Don Messick.
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    I love me some Cyrus Highsmith fonts, so...
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    Disney owns the show outright. It's distributed by Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution.
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    Spanish Broadcasting System has, IIRC, been having debt problems, so it figures they would sell off KTBU.
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    I mean, CBS had the chance to get back into Hampton Roads...
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    6? Wasn't it less than three years ago that they canceled all their Critically-Acclaimed Originals ahead of the Sinclair takeover that wasn't? I can't imagine Nexstar has any interest in prestige television...
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    Most major media outlets seem to have given up on that beat ages ago. It's noticeably harder to find reliable ratings info than it used to be.
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    With regards to Sears and Kmart, is there an Eddie Lampert type waiting to bleed local TV dry if they miss a few steps?
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    The programming's so cheap that they must.
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    And apparently they don't have the budget to tap an outside firm either.
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    It does feel like the pool of V/O artists skews pretty old, honestly. Like there is no one to take the reins from the mainstays as they decline or leave the profession.
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    Disney doesn't own the searchlights anyway! Fox Media owns the 20th Century Fox trademarks, and Disney is licensing them on a perpetual, royalty-free basis.
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    The existing Fox wordmark is iconic? At any rate, Rupert kept the 20th Century Fox trademarks, so they don’t need to pay to license the searchlights.
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    Are any of the megachains really friends?
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