Rusty Muck

Exactly. Excessive amounts of local news only works in LA and even then those channels use the almost-daily live high speed pursuits as agonizing filler. More local news only shows the sheer brain rot from overpaid high-ranking executives who have no other ideas. It never translates into better working conditions or higher wages among the staff that have to front the burden while the fatcat owners don't give a rat's butt. Unlike others who seemingly are unable to ever see the point, I don't need to know where you live. Cleveland has an excessive amount of local news, as does Toledo or even Tuscon, Arizona. It's endemic.

It'd be rather fitting if this Free Press whacko causes NewsNation to lose viewers in that timeslot. Which tends to be their MO.

I have the second the deal was announced. I'm repeatedly on the record declaring that deal ridiculous and stupid. You cannot change my mind. The Watermans are still laughing all the way to the bank at how they got Hearst to spend a quarter of a billion on ONE STATION AND ONE LMA IN A SMALL MARKET IN A STATE WITH NO RELEVANT POLITICAL AD REVENUE.

That is so laughably not what I said at all. Get your head out of the sand. Yeah go ahead and cheer on a bunch of rich fatcats that are content with wasting a quarter of a billion dollars on one station and an LMA. You realize how stupid that sounds? Or that you're defending the fandom's love for a conglomerate that doesn't deserve it? This type of behavior—besides "oooh Tegna bad" "oooh Scripps bad"—is why I don't take the reasonable people such as you in the TV fandom seriously because if it isn't that, it's people either wanting to be forever stuck in 2008 or judging the performances of stations based solely on vibes, like one person in particular on here. And I'm going to call out @Weeters for not having the "ignore this poster" function in LNT, inasmuch as y'all think I'm an extension of him, you couldn't be more wrong.

It doesn't and won't matter. Ruddy's protests are not going to change anything in this deal and simply allow him the convenience of being "independent" while in reality, he's no different than the rest of the lot. Yeah it's nice that he's against this merger but he cannot change the outcome of a rigged game.

And you're wrong on assuming that things are going to be peachy keen for Hearst when any rudimentary knowledge of basic economics will tell you that the McBrides have a major advantage in the market and will dominate. But I'm not a bootlicker for Hearst, so...

This forum is a non-stop lovefest for Hearst, the company that can do no wrong, ever. Math apparently takes a vacation here as well. Hearst was dumb and foolish and it bit them in the butt. They had no idea what they were doing setting a quarter of a billion dollars on fire for no reason.

I can assure you that Nexstar would not have wasted $220M on WBBH and a lease for WZVN.

I don't see how Mission doesn't cleanly merge into Nexstar at this point. The pretense of needing a sidecar company would be gone altogether.

Are you not looking at Fort Myers??? They have a major scale disadvantage going against five television stations and eleven radio stations!!! Does anyone in this platform have any inkling as to how horribly lopsided the playing field has been thrown in the McBrides favor? Forget about ratings and all that garbage. I'm only talking about revenue and the McBrides can bully Hearst out of the market completely with scale. Of course, after Nexstar swallows up Tegna and Gray gobbles down Scripps, Hearst and Graham will be painfully small and easy takeover bait. It is. I said it the day it was made and I'll say it to my grave, Hearst screwed up buying into a older market like this with no hope for any political ad revenue. And plunking down that amount for one station and one LMA? Waterman is forever laughing all the way to the bank at how stupid Hearst was.

It makes CBS prime takeover bait for Nexstar... maybe they can use the vacant slots used by CBS's soon-to-be-gone news programming for NewsNation simulcasts. I wish I was kidding.

Shirtless, with a gigantic q-tip by his side.

Perry's gloating about the merger in this puff piece softball interview with Deadline. He's also confident that Carr and Trusty will give him everything he desires. https://deadline.com/2025/09/nexstar-ceo-perry-sook-tegna-ma-local-media-deregulation-1236508050/

It is being sold to WINK. There is literally no difference between the two companies except for the chief executive. And that news department is gonna be vaporized. They desire to live in a permanent right-wing hellscape run by morons and at continuous risk of being destroyed by hurricanes, and may be uninsurable in the not-too-distant future. Not that Youngstown is any better. You don't spend $220M to wind up in a severe scale disadvantage. It's absolute lunacy to assume Hearst is content with now being in a totally uncompetitive position.

Can't wait to see the headlines about how the Evening News is once again losing viewers with the new (old) format lol