ABC 7 Denver

This is PBS news.

** David Zaslav, who's a hack.

Sounds like WCPM to me. I recognize their instrumentation and the overlay of the EWN sig is peak laziness indicating WCPM.

Then even more! Pay your journalists more than minimum wage.

I'd argue that if you set runs $200-$300K, you should invest that in more journalists.

Again, as I said, there's been no data indicating a ratings bump because of it.

Sets are a big waste of money.

No. It does look stupid, but it's because Cox doesn't have a clue.

2013. It was holding up nicely and sets cost a lot and don't contribute to a ratings bump.

It's already in the pipeline. KCNC didn't need a new set. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/pictures/cbs-colorado-new-set-construction-behind-the-scenes/

CBS doesn't care about uniqueness. They prefer complete brand alignment.

It looks like an update of the previous set but with new flooring. I'll be interested to see what the anchor desk looks like.

That won't happen though. In the CNBC article that I shared, it said, In that case, Sony would have kept Paramount and the studios, while Apollo would have taken CBS - and likely would have started to sell it for parts like they have done with Cox stations, maybe even reorganizing Cox stations around CBS.

Dude, environmental disaster recovery have been a reasonable possibilities for decades! Are you saying that it's somehow more likely because of the climate crisis? I'm not sure it's going impact stations in isolation. Many cities will need investment to rebuild.

And you can see how well SBC has done as AT&T Mobility. Cell service still largely relies on POTS and ISP provide the data services (coming from a former Lumen Network Eng ) We've seen consolidation, but companies like Lumen Technologies, Comcast, Dish, Charter, Cox, Frontier, Altice USA, and several hundreds of other LECs wouldn't exist without the AT&T breakup.

The irony here is that Fox has a 17.6% minority state in FanDuel

Not with the way that Skydance produces sequels as almost half their projects. The deal will be confirmed this week. Just pushing this ahead of the announcement.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/03/paramount-skydance-merger-deal-update.html https://player.cnbc.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&byGuid=7000341982

This is Vulture Capitalism for you.

What is excess profit? Corporations are in businesses to provide value to shareholders. Persistent growth is the objective. There is no such thing as excess profit.

Finally! The bug is aligned.

We're going to see more stations folding!

Perry Jr. doesn't have a resume. Dur. Perry Sook is menial. Would you like me to county the ways?! I have laundry list. Exactly my expectations. WPIX means little to any other organization as it does to Nexstar, who runs a significant portion of their miserable cable channel out of it.

I've said before that Nexstar could experiment by hubbing all 3 Colorado markets out of Denver and airing a standardized broadcast schedule with local cut-ins, while, of course, sales, ads and management were all Denver-based as well. RE: NewsNation burdens under-paid local staff to develop additional packages and remotes outside of their normal workflows. Trying to do more with less and stations are already as stretched as they can be. I wasn't thinking about Scott Jones at all. I was thinking about their stock price, their green-screen sets, their lowball offers, cost-cutting into irrelevance. For example, the Creative Services Director for KMGH/KCDO is now responsible for KOAA and is being paid the same rate as he did when he managed two stations. He's also using the same budget for the one station (before KCDO was purchased). KOAA has seen a ton of reductions, as KMGH picks up the slack without any additional cost overhead. WPIX is only valuable to Nexstar both because of it's affiliation and because of it's footprint for NewsNation. It's a waste of money to anyone else. As I said, Graham isn't reasonable, and honestly, I don't think Scripps or Hearst is either. I was throwing ideas. TBH, Cox wants to milk everything for profit and I think they'd put up the money if they could absolutely destroy the station.