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Clearly, which is going to make things very interesting once the Gray acquisition is done. The set has aged pretty well though. WHAS desperately needs refurbished...

KDVR has recently overtaken KUSA from what I've heard from those in the market. Additionally, KDVR houses the master control hub for like 60 of Nexstar's stations. They're actually one of Nexstar's most successful and profitable stations I believe. Not to mention they own KWGN, a CW affiliate, which Nexstar also owns the majority of. Fox News even has offices in the building. It's far far easier to gut KUSA than it is to upend KDVR. But you're right, consolidation really isn't bad! Merging stations and laying off hundreds of people with thousands of years of experience while local management and the executive offices continue to get massive bonuses is fantastic. Not to mention Nexstar's phenomenal yearly pay raises of...1-2%.

Wild that a station like KUSA will inevitably end up shutting down as soon as the end of next year.

I feel really bad for Tegna employees being whipped around like this. Plenty of them were alarmed enough about Nexstar.

Oh look, another news branding with "NOW" in it. How original.

I'm surprised they kept the Action News branding for as long as they did. After KSHB dropped it in 2021 I wondered if WFTS would soon follow.

Nexstar has been a mega corp. What really sucks for Tegna employees is PTO. Tegna had probably the most generous PTO in the industry. Nexstar on the other hand...they'd ban PTO if they could.

Their opposition being...?

People were dropping cable like flies because of the cost and switching to streaming, and lo and behold, streaming is now just as expensive as cable and much more difficult to keep tabs with since you have separate accounts and log ins for every platform.

From what I understand WDRB will move into WAVE's building, presumably selling off DRB's current facility. The veteran talent at WDRB seems pretty visibly shaken, and understandably so. All of this is ultimately great for WLKY as they'll basically have no competition anymore. WAVE may perform below WDRB, but it's certainly in a better position than WHAS.

WDRB will undoubtedly undergo cuts. They have some really high paid talent. It'll be fascinating to see how this turns out because WDRB is easily #2 in the evenings and outperforms WAVE pretty much everywhere.

Impressive work to set up a mobile unit like that given the circumstances

I'm actually impressed they (whoever had the idea) actually convinced management to do this. I have heard of several situations where the weather team (particularly the chief) has complained about green screen placement in relation to the rest of the weather cent, have asked for it to be moved (either after or during set construction), and are told no.

It took four years to resolve this?

What do you got to lose? Better to try something unique to spark energy and fail, than try nothing new and fail anyway.

We need to investigate who decided "News on the Deuce" was a good idea and potentially file criminal charges.

Not a big fan of that desk, but props to WPSD for providing renderings.

Looks like they've done a lot of work for ABC.

It's a good open but my goodness is it long

I never understood the appeal of concert series. Even as news junkie kid/teen I thought they were weird. Honestly surprised they haven't been canned altogether by now.

That bugged me too. Someone created typed that out, looked at it, and said "yes this is good."

“We did not eliminate the sports department — we eliminated the sports anchor position,” Keane said. “We’re still going to cover sports extensively both with a reporter in the mornings and we’re going to gather and distribute sports content across all sports whenever there’s breaking news." Typical corporate jargon speak. They did eliminate the sports department. If you let go of people whose job it was to do a very specific task, you eliminated the department and shifted the workload elsewhere. Also, specifically covering sports with a reporter in the morning? When nothing sportswise happens? Those reporters aren't going to have the same connections and relationships that the sports department will.

Wild that an O&O in such a major pro (and college) sports town would cut the entire department.

This is precisely what the problem is. They took the lazy route and copied WNT's format, especially with the excessive use of breaking news for stories that are sometimes days old. Feeling the need to make changes is fine and necessary, but directly copying your competition is the easy way out, especially if you aren't taking their ideas and trying to improve upon them.

From how I understand it, CBS has been demanding an extraordinary sum to affiliates to keep CBS on their channel (tens of millions of dollars in markets the size of 60-70, so imagine how much they wanted for Atlanta). Gray basically told CBS to F off, we're not going to pay you that much. CBS's response was 'ok that's understandable' and went to WUPA (which CBS already owned!). Good thing channel numbers don't matter much anymore (WUPA is channel 69).