Samantha

Glad you asked. Silent STA hit the FCC today. Its dependent translators also have silent STA requests filed. A Form 314 was filed today, but not for a sale to a new TV buyer—instead to cover the merger of GCI with Liberty Broadband. That's gotta be a related development.

The New Age Media markets have the same trademark issue spotted here but WTLH doesn't come up for renewal until early next year (Georgia license).

The petition's all sorts of interesting, even if its chances of success are probably quite low.

KRIV starts a 6 on September 14, known as "The NewsEdge Early Edition". https://tvnewscheck.com/article/more-news/253101/kriv-to-debut-the-newsedge-early-edition-at-6-p-m/

Tegna is objecting to the license renewal of a low-power TV station in Virginia because it interfered with its WVEC after the repack. On June 8, DirecTV informed Tegna that it was having trouble receiving WVEC. After inspection of its equipment and a consultation with DirecTV, it began to suspect interference from WGBS-LD on RF channel 11; the station was displaced to 12 by WVEC. It then temporarily took WVEC silent—and voilà, DirecTV got WGBS-LD in its stead! Tegna SVP, General Counsel and Secretary Akin Harrison writes:

KVHP also has a silent STA because its signal path is the same as that of KPLC. Worth noting a distinction: KSWL's tower collapse included the transmitter. KPLC/KVHP's did not. So if they can get a signal path to the transmitter at Lunita, they can get back on the air.

All you have to do is ask AFLAC, hometown insurance company and former owner: "We learned we could never become the city's news leader on a UHF station." They ended up buying and owning WTVM (AFLAC's broadcast holdings were one of the original Raycom Media components).

Check processing, 1986-style...in a KHJ (!) report: KBMT in 1992: the WUAB syndicated graphics and OG Spirit of Texas (hey NMSA, check this out):

Of course it had to be a newscast with a special close AND a missing open... That seems to match a known lost generation of KLAS opens.

Well this is interesting...

@jerseyfla Yup, and it's a confirmed custom (though no composer known). I'd title it "Big 13, Where News Comes First". Debuted September 1982. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58047792/

KKTV anchor Don Ward died today while hiking, believed to be from a heart attack:

That makes sense, get an additional mux on the stick and upgrade it to the 15 kW they're using on the other channels.

SagamoreHill is buying an LPTV construction permit near Lake Charles, Louisiana. W24DX-D Iowa, LA, is the next town over. They'll pay $35,000 for the privilege.

WHEC in 1993, early into the Live/Local/Up to the Minute era:

Some KRBK updates from 1986 using The Image Leader, plus Christine Craft (she of age discrimination lawsuit fame), Pat Flanigan weather tease and Rich Gould sports tease (looks like Koplar transferred him to St. Louis in 1988):

Good. Golly.

Coastal Television is so cheap that buying either of the Coastal operations of note would require significant investment.

Starting to wonder if they even used Classical Gas after the call sign change...

That WLMT open really does not know what it wants to be.

Wow, still KTVY too. Less than two weeks to the call change. The channel has more wonderful material on it and the potential for even more, but this is another rarity:

Cinemagic likely made the WRNN open too...but yes, definitely more than an open designer there.

The KCRA and You theme line is all over this.

The problem is that this is the largest story of our lifetimes. Its effects are being felt universally. There are other stories, yes. But no one event has had this much global reach. Not even world wars, in many ways.

From 1987 to 1992/93 in one time skip, but a sighting of my white whale: the mid-80s KUTV (Mike Post?) theme! The channel has reams of other KUTV material, including Bill Lord (later of WUSA and WJLA) on the "Extra" news magazine covering the coverage of the Ted Bundy trial: