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I think that part of the issue here is that the graphics package is meh. Even Media General's flat package looked better than this. The green doesn't work and the color is more sunset peach which works well as a highlight complimenting golds, blues and white, but not as a primary. Combined with the green, it's reminiscent of watermelon.

And the WISH-2018 package. Off-the-shelf.

Why? Because they keep hiring SAM.

I think the 25% opacity text across the screen in the opening is incredibly distracting. There's too much going on visually. Keep the C4D renders, the large text stroke, the names of the cities, and the background video.

Are young people even consuming NBC News digitally?

When is WSVN going to adjust back to NTSC?

As valuable as a "Weather Nutritionists". It's not a protected term. Now before you get at me, Dietician is protected, but Weather Dietician isn't.

AI is better than SmithGeiger!? Lmaooooo!

That is one of the laziest brand names. I'm guessing AI created that. When have you seen a meteorologist slackin' on air? The only one that I see not 'Weather Ready', is Nexstar with a two-hour delay which can have consequences during a weather emergency.

You think Chris Cuomo is Cheap? Awe. That's quaint. Also, yes I know the ad demo is abandoning linear television for streaming (which can be FAST), but generally, even without the key demo, News Nation would be delisted from the industry audience metrics. In fact, it does so poorly and consumes so many resources for itself and in a parasitic fashion from local stations, that I don't think it's providing any ROI, even if Nexstar demands it be carried as a sidecar to its local stations in retrans agreements. Local Nexstar stations have better metrics, both inside and outside the ad demo. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2025/4/24/close-to-hashmarks

You think that would stop those suspected companies? Apollo can sell the group as a complete unit and one of these suspected companies could have quietly negotiated a TBA in the background. Once the Apollo sale is complete, whomever buys the stations, immediately sells the radio stations to the 3rd-party. Apollo has no recourse. The entire idea that the FCC grants licenses or allows local broadcasting to serve the public interest went out the window, when the greedy corporations began slashing budgets, experienced journalists and solely providing shareholder value, instead of catering to their communities. You made your point as if crippling the visual storytelling medium wasn't the entire purpose. Really, the 3 biggest station groups - Sinclair, Nexstar and Gray are lead by Conservative CEOs who are more interested in pushing their own opinions and sucking the assets out of local journalism than providing a public good. Why do we think NewsNation is still around? Sean Compton is a close friend of Donald Trump's. Nexstar's local stations are being siphoned from resources and Nexstar retrans agreement with cable vendors must include NewsNation, which both Neilsen and Comscore demonstrate has little value, but Nexstar keeps taking valuable assets away from their stations to propup Donald Trump's friend. So I call bullshit on the idea that this isn't the entire intent of these organizations and we cannot stop it.

That story would change if the FCC indeeds eliminates the ownership cap. I'd imagine Nexstar, Gray and Sinclair owning all of the stations in the US.

Less meteorology and more clairvoyance?

I'm looking forward to a time when the national anthem plays and broadcasts end for the day because it's too expensive to run anything anymore. Remember, RFK is implementing a rule which wouldn't allow big pharma to advertise. This is a what I primarily see as the advert stream for evening newscasts. So the era of network evening newscasts may just end.

Could a 2-way sale satisfy that? Say Company A wants to by the stations from Apollo, but they don't want the radio stations. So Company A makes and agreement with Company B that upon completion of the sale from Apollo, Company B is transferred ownership of the radio assets, in exchange for a time honor agreement and a proportional contribution of the entire valuation of the sale (say stock and/or cash). Technically, Company A would acquire Cox since they owned the brokerage account and then would immediately split it. Of course, if Company A was tricky, they could negotiate in bad faith and then once the sale was complete immediately sell the assets anyway.