ABC 7 Denver

This is why monopolies in local television are so bad. Who wants to see Kevin O'Leary in a negligee?

You know what's sad? This looks better than the new set that KMGH got in their new building when they previously had this set. Also, I will say that the anchor desk seems very European and I think that's due to the curved lines.

I mean, at this point, maybe just collapse into 1 station and treat WMUR like a semi-satellite.

Where is there straight news on streaming?

That's only like 0.0098% of Hearst family wealth. It ain't shit to them.

If you're going to post this, at least leave a picture.

You still have cable!?

So you're saying the only alternative to video news is print? I know Colorado's AG personally. I'll have a direct conversation with him about this and the KKTV and KKCO swap.

The argument is that there are online alternatives for local news. I'll wait for you to name me one, because it's absolutely crap. Newspapers were the only other alternative.

Can you please cite me evidence that it was losing money other than Paramount management saying so?

Then why did Skydance fire Colbert? lol Leave it alone if you're going to sell it. I call bullshit. I mean, given Scripps stock price, so will KMGH. Local news will be completely controlled by Nexstar in Denver.

Skydance is friendly to trump. What are you talking about? Larry Ellison is a major Trump donor and backed David Ellison's Skydance for the acquisition of CBS.

Nah. Nexstar will sell 9News's building and consolidate operations at KDVR|KWGN, since they're right down the street from each other and Nexstar is known for gutting stations that they purchase. So 9News will be hollowed and, knowing Clyde Becker, all these stations will have the same graphics and branding (i.e. "We're on it".) because Clyde can't manage to find his way out of a McDonald's much less boost ratings. All the departments will remain mostly the same size for 4 stations as they are with 2. I expect simulcasting to save money. Kyle Clark, for the record, will be fired or pushed out. See him coming to Substack soon.

Any goodwill that MSNBC had by virtue of being associated with NBC will be completely gone. I think the viewership will completely fall out from this. It's worse than NewsMax or One American News Network. I think NewsNation has better brand positioning than this and we know how that's going.

It's all seniors, the vast majority of which are Republican.

I was specifically talking about the Lawrence Welk rerun demographic who almost completely overlaps with the Republican base.

Lol! They voted for this.

The open is still decent, but the L3s need a refresh.

I'll second. We're seeing massive attrition of qualified journalists and an industry bowing to fascistic autocrats, but we want to continue to debate time/temp bugs. People, we have a significant editorial independence crisis on our hands! What the actual f*ck?!

Where they different scopes?

It's not bad. It's just basic and really really boring. =

Half? More like a 3rd. Only ~66% of the voting population even participates. This coming from an Officer of a state Democratic party (me).

Here's the thing: Unless you're a die-hard local news fan, I don't think most people are going out of their way to watch FAST. Viewers want bespoke content that is picked for them, not to watch a broadcast on a app. We cut cable because we wanted a level of control from our content vendors to choose exactly the kind of information/entertainment that we want to watch and having an algorithm recommend additional content based upon what we liked or psychologically attracted to. Swapping OTA for FAST for identical content ignores the entire reason that viewers cut the cord anyway.

So they're doubling down on linear television? That's not going to work well for them. BH doesn't have the infrastructure for that.... Frankly there's demand for non-linear targeted stories, but not without the cost offset for the SAAS development.

*The News Director comes out from the back*