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CBS didn't develop this strategy. One of their local stations did. Could that bug look any more disproportional?

When have you seen a TV group invest in that at all in a thorough and effective way?

CBS isn't looking to expand in Texas or Colorado.

KCNC in Denver is going a similar route, branding itself as CBS News Colorado. Though I'm surprised considering they don't do a great job covering Southern Colorado, the Western Slope or Northern Colorado. Calling KTVT CBS News Texas makes even less sense. CBS doesn't have enough resources to cover all of Texas. Should have stuck with CBS News DFW.

Theoretically, but it's gotten so much into analysis and commentary. It's not news! It's Public Media on Cable in that case. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO PAY ATTENTION TO?! What am I looking at? What am I supposed to hear? The awful vamp? The voice over? Those graphics are too distracting. Is this a newscast or a sizzle real for a ad agency?

Comcast, unsurprisingly, hasn't been all that interested in creating a directed streamer. Peacock is FAST, but it lacks the investment that Paramount+ and Disney+ has had.

Notice they had something different underneath the path in '85 Station priorities at the time were not to change their slogans often. We're in different days. We don't lock in slogans to the logo because the slogans will change more quickly than the logo does.

To your point, those plexiglass panels on either side of the desk are the debate podiums they used earlier. Also these red lines support the camera leaning to the Left:

Hahahahahahaha! Dumbasses.

Odds are that they eventually spin this division off again.

And the fact is that these graphics look like a recycle. Heck, even something you'd find on Envato Marketplace. I'm not badmouthing RenderOn. They did what they were contacted to do and at the price they were contracted to do it, but the high reflectivity of the graphics and the horizonal line sweeps is a last-decade troupe, started with the Scripps 2012 package.

Scripps can build more new content than Gray.

My friend was the News Director who got rid of that crap.

Their local stations are so understaffed that they are already as stretched as they can be.

Look at the title of this thread and consider how irrelevant your point is, falling directly under this topic.

I see Scripps and CBS diving into mostly all news-channels. CBS especially because they have the CBS News City streaming channel and KCAL News is an experiment toward this, and Scripps with Ion as a potential programming service (like MyNetworkTV) and Scripps News to cover national programming, mixed with more local news. Gray has a harder path toward cutting ties with CW. Local News Live is their latest attempt, but I'd argue that they simply just don't have the investment in national news to completely program independent (or would-be independent) stations. They are investing in production facilities which could be used for a national news product or other long-term entertainment scaling, but given the current sustainability and debt/equity ratio questions that many groups have, including Gray, I do wonder if this is the best investment for the immediate future of their business model.

You NEVER include a slogan in your logo. Amateur hour.

Dude. It is owned by Saudi Arabia who's noted for their human rights abuses and corruption. It's gross.

Lol! I don't need to say it again. You can see it in the WSMV Name Change Again thread. Just look at who the Creative Service Director is https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-mcclelland-9080176/. 'Nuff said.

This seems right in line with Nexstar's Conservative values. They are shortsighted and tanking their own business with this retransmission pissing match, meanwhile taking any profit from local stations and funneling it to a little-watched Conservative Talk Network, and now their buddying up to an OPEC country with a history of Corruption and Human Rights abuses. Can we now thoroughly agree that Nexstar isn't the unbiased group owner that they purport to be and that maybe we should press the FCC to force them to be broken up into smaller groups as they are going to not be the stewards of journalism that they claimed their size would allow them to be? No group should be so large as to allow for a lack of competition and steadfast journalism integrity that keeps them on the straight and narrow. I'm beyond tired of Nexstar flagrantly violating the community trust and need for their own gain.

Stations haven't invested in digital-first infrastructure to take advantage of streaming. And the fact that they only push linear content, not developing a microtargeted news platform is part of the overall trajectory issue of this industry.

To stream a newscast? Ha! No, it is not that costly at this point, especially considering how much stations are paying for affiliation and syndication fees. If you run it with ads, you can significantly offset the costs. I'd argue that this move by Nexstar is a shortsighted plan because they're effectively laying their own demise. As station groups ask for more money from retransmission fees, the cable subscription costs increase to compensate, decreasing the demand and driving up the retransmission fees, creating a no-win game for groups like this. In the attempt to drive dividends, they are not paying down debt (only the low interests rate) which will come due soon and force Nexstar into administration. Even once the Nexstars of the world are gone, the cable industry won't recover. It's a downward spiral and Nexstar is harming their viewership by not providing up to the minute information, especially as viewers have less access to local news.

They are doing that to get you to pay for Cable to watch it live, to make those retran$.

I propose we start calling it the Black Eye Network.

And with that, here's another nail in Nexstar's coffin.