Rusty Muck

43 minutes ago, The Frog said:

 

There are some potential scheduling conflicts with Xfinity races.

 

 

Who gets bumped to NewsNation? 

Bold of you for assuming that Nexstar thought any of this through to begin with when they wanted to be the leader of forgettable Z-level sports. But "all part of the plan," I guess.

1 minute ago, dzonershow said:

Then why u prioritized Coastal and INSP as your own "magic wand" idea.

Shut up. I'm not magic wanding anything. You have no idea what in the hell you're talking about.

3 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

This isn't "magic wand thinking" this is about speculation.

This is not a speculation thread.

4 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

I'm a free market type of guy not a rookie to demand more M&A. Let the free market decide and i'm not fooling around to level the playing field.

You are clueless and have no idea how things work.

5 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

Again INSP and Coastal will not buying bigger markets, I doubt Disney or Hearst or even Graham will expand in my opinion.

They will buy these stations and you will be disappointed when reality slaps you across the face.

I will only ask this once. Do not quote me and try to prolong this as your time here may be severly limited.

7 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

Wait until Disney merges their streaming apps, it wont be long until Disney wants to add ABC News into their own apps. Everyone else is adding live news into streaming.

Totally irrelevant to the topic field.

7 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

I'm taking Disney's side if they want to look at KATU, KOMO, KDNL, KTUL, KATV, WXLV, WJLA etc.

Disney won't be looking at these stations. Stop this magic wand wishcasting right now.

7 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

Again why cheer the ones that u want to buy the large market stations, Why let INSP want Sinclair's big markets, NewsNet isn't worth it if your Coastal/Alaska.

I'm not "cheering" anything, I'm just not engaging in magic wand thinking and foolishly spouting off "Hearst! Graham! ABC!" when the facts state otherwise. They aren't buying a bunch of laggards, or anything else, for that matter.

You are really getting on my nerves and I would strongly suggest refraining from making more posts like these.

59 minutes ago, VHSgoodiesWA said:

Since Portland is on the chopping block (KATU), is that a market that Disney could be interested in buying out? Or is Portland too small for an ABC O&O given that KOMO Seattle isn't one either?

Disney is, and has always been, wholly uninterested in buying any TV stations. It'll never happen.

INSP and Coastal/Vision are the likeliest candidates for KATU. Who else wants it?

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

They focusing of the FAST channel business using CBS News 24/7 (then CBSN and CBS News Streaming Network). It kinda confuses me that they drop CBS2 and KCAL9 brands in the LA market uniting as KCAL News and CBS News Los Angeles sans channel numbers (CBS Los Angeles was shown on the linear channel 2 feed while CBS News Los Angeles appears of the latter namesake streaming feed). CBS4 in Denver drop the number 4 in their branding when it became CBS Colorado and their news brand both linear and streaming as CBS News Colorado. WWJ opted to use the CBS News Detroit name than CBS62 since they're focusing on their streaming products.

Please don't post walls of text irrelevant to the topic thread for the sake of posting walls of text. It's honestly deeply aggravating. This is a thread about Sinclair Broadcast Group, not an invitation to spout off verbal diarrhea about whatever the CBS stations are doing. Who freaking cares?

Like Scott Fybush said in reply to you in RadioDiscussions: "Going forward, the discussion on this site needs to more than just 'lists of things.'"

8 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

This is about public good in broadcasting which is "real world" than your comments.

With all do respect, the only purpose of commerical broadcasting is to make money. "Public good" is secondary, if it is even a factor.

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

Tell that to the many small to midsize CW, MNTV and Independents that dont have local news unless they make a duopoly with a Big 4 network.

Irrelevant to the topic at hand. 

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

Also religious TV broadcasters are much different than religious radio broadcasters buying commercial radio broadcasters.

They also have money and incentive. That's why EMF, Relevant Radio and Daystar have vacuumed up oodles of stations over the years.

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

Your beign jealous here, local tv stations are public service something that the internet don't. Serving local communities and the real world analogy is about using goverment owned frequency to serve the public good, big tech streamers are not supporting local communities and they only focus on national content than using documentaries to serve the public good.

I'm not "beign jealous" of anything, I'm simply existing in the real world, not fantasy-driven wishcasting of groups buying a bunch of basketcase stations from a bush league owner. Have you ever heard of "return on investment"?

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

BTW Hearst does involved in national content in a midscale with their half interests in A&E Networks and NorthSouth productions along with E/I programing company Litton Entertainment now Hearst Media Production Group selling their content to the networks and streamers.

Again, totally irrelevant to the topic at hand.

1 hour ago, dzonershow said:

Streamers are not the real world that you're living, it's an internet apocalyse lead by the cheap prices offered by Big Tech and the local broadcasters are the alternative to missinformation and filling the void left by newspapers. Do your math right.

With all due respect, do better.

13 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

Why u gonna trust INSP despite they dont have a recent local TV station experience, Daystar aren't in the network affiliation and newscast business, Coastal/Vision Alaska are relying on NewsNet.

Why? Because they are the only ones who would want to buy these stations that, for the most part, have no local news presence, little viewership or zero infrastructure. The spectrum hogging would matter more, and it does with a bottom-feeder like INSP.

14 minutes ago, dzonershow said:

I want groups and network owners not the religious ones, this is not like Salem or EMF buying radio stations.

Well, I live in the real world, and these stations being sold are those the megachains or the networks would not want. Hearst is not going to spend money on a bunch of fixer-uppers or total rebuild projects, and neither would Gray, Graham, Scripps or Tegna.

15 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Imagine if it's Imagicomm Communication, Costal Television and Standard that buy up these stations. Honestly though, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Cox Media Group underwritten by Apollo.

INSP, Coastal and Daystar are the most likely buyers of these stations.

Standard General is a company in limbo since they failed to get Tegna (with the current farce that is MediaCo, Standard clearly has no idea what their plans are in any aspect of mass media) and the stations they currently have are low-budget, low-rated dumps. Plus Apollo is not going to spend money on stations that sorely need investment in or need totally new infrastructures altogether.

13 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

No no. They are going to crap too:

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/5/1/more-on-the-allen-media-massacre

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/29/allen-media-swings-the-ax

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/5/7/no-more-401k

Even without the links to Old Scotty's blog, it's fairly obvious that Byron Allen is overleveraged and likely is being crushed by debt. One could argue that his fruitless "bids" to buy ABC, Tegna and Paramount Global have been simple distractions to hide what is a much more serious problem.

22 minutes ago, Megatron81 said:

I think Byron Allen will put his name out there saying he'll buy the 60 TV stations from Sinclair that is how Byron rolls. I think it will be someone small that buys Sinclair kinda like a Standard General when they tried to buy WXMI Fox17 in the failed Tribune merger. 

Byron Allen is too badly overleveraged and has acquired a bad reputation for talking up deal after deal and failing to actually make them. He is not a credible candidate for anything.

2 hours ago, Big Rollo Smokes said:

Are you "DarrenVision" from Radio Discussions? (The avatars are the same.)

 

If so, that would explain your eagerness to see more M&As without taking reality into account. Respectfully, don't bring any of that here.

Thank you for saying that. I don't know if it's a bug or a feature about the TV fandom in the present day but it has also irritated the moderators over there considerably.

Sinclair is what would have happened had a miserly 1980s-era owner like TVX Broadcast Group or Media Central somehow existed into the present day.

3 hours ago, TexasTVNews said:

If I may add one more thing I forgot to mention. I could vision KTVL, KMEG/KPTH, and WNWO be owned by either Cox, Scripps, Nexstar or Tegna. If one station owners do acquire some of the Sinclair stations, they would need to make a fresh start by reviving its news department and newscasts and hire new talent with years of experience.

 

Now, I could see KTVL to Nexstar, Scripps or Gray, KMEG/KPTH to Cox, AMG, Scripps or Tegna, and WNWO to Nexstar, Scripps, or AMG.

Serious question: why in the wide wide world of sports would any of those groups want basketcase stations that need a massive amount of investment just in order to be remotely competitive in a declining industry?

Plus Apollo Global Management isn't buying anything and Byron Allen is too badly overleveraged. With all due respect, what makes anyone think Apollo is going to have the soulless husk of Cox Media Group buy anything or that Byron is going to do anything but make vacant empty promises he can't deliver?

1 hour ago, NowBergen said:

Sony and Apollo have indicated that they plan to only keep Paramount Studios and sell off CBS (including CBS News & owned stations), Paramount + and cable stations.  That avoids any Cox conflicts.  Shari Redstone has said she was against selling to break the company up but the cash may be too good an offer to turn down. 

It won't. While the company is looking over the Sony-Apollo bid, it is out of courtesy alone and will be rejected as soon as practicable.

That being said, Apollo is more likely to sell off Cox Media Group than they are going to have them buy anything. Cox Media is stagnant, faltering and running on fumes.

4 hours ago, doublejman69 said:

Then sat down with some people that still watch news and ask was the biggest complaint about news and it was that they never report about news in their small town.

That's been an industry problem for over 35 years. Everyone has tried to be a knockoff of WSVN and local news has been stuck in the same old, same old. It's why viewership is collapsing.

4 hours ago, doublejman69 said:

It’s been reported that Sinclair is looking to unload small market stations, most likely CW, mynet and independents. Sinclair will sell those underperforming stations to a private equity firm, then they will gut the stations or let the network and syndicated contracts expire and sell the spectrum to god casters. 
 

I think the thing to look for is what network contracts are due to expire. That could be a sign to what stations sinclair unloads. 

Private equity isn't going to want to bother with television station ownership after the FCC let the Standard/Apollo buyout of Tegna die on the vine. (Standard General, particularly their MediaCo subsidiary, is a ghastly basketcase right now, so count them out, too.)

It is not outside the realm of possibility that Daystar buys all the stations and flips them immediately to godcasters.

Also... it's 2024. Interest rates are not near zero like they were a decade ago. It is not financially productive or possible for a singular buyer to emerge for these stations. The investment banker advising Sinclair right now assuredly told them this hard truth.

6 hours ago, Breaking News said:

Scripps itself is in shambles and it only a matter of time when they're headed to the auction block for their stations.

Why? Because they actually modernized production for their newscasts and thus made themselves a target of a has-been blogger who wants things to remain stuck in 1989 even as viewing habits have collapsed across the board?

In the real world, the only real weak spot is the Ion stations, and that's because of the soft national ad market.

I think a lot of people are going to be severly disappointed when a bottom-feeder no-budget company like INSP or Vision/Coastal winds up buying these stations instead of these pie-eyed fantasies.

Instead of playing speculator, let's just look at these indisputable truths. And they aren't pretty:

1. The television industry is not a buyer's market in any sense of the word and hasn't been since interest rates got raised substantially
2. The few remaining megachains—Scripps, Tegna and Gray—are either too built up or are already in many of these existing markets.
3. Hearst doesn't buy anything unless it's a gigantic waste of money like spending $200M+ for freaking WBBH in a older market in a permanently uncompetitive state politically. Great thinking there, y'all.
4. Apollo Global Management isn't buying anything and may be forced to sell off Cox Media Group if their stupid fever dream of buying Paramount actually happened.
5. Graham isn't buying anything because they just don't.
6. The networks ain't buying anything, and one of them (CBS) is in limbo right now since Shari Redstone took it off the market.
7. The FCC might just repeal the UHF Discount rule (again) just to further erase anything Pai did and not grandfather a thing
8. The continued diminishing returns of retransmission revenue is only going to get worse. Those golden geese are no longer not laying eggs, they're entering hospice care and the likes of Nexstar don't have a plan B.

So as you can clearly see... Sinclair is absolutely screwed.

7 minutes ago, GraphicsMan said:

He has to have WPIX. Mark my words.

Not only will he not get it, he'll stubbornly refuse to sell anything in order to buy it.

This is the same clown who runs a company that proudly boasted on their own website they could buy ABC "with little friction". And no one has seemingly considered this is why the FCC has started to crack down on them.

8 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

WGN is probably their only station that not only streams live, but has their own streaming app on Roku.

 

What else would you expect from the godfather of shaking down the pay TV companies for cash?

It's gonna be hilarious when one of the pay TV companies permanently lock him out because retrans revenue is nothing more than diminishing returns.

Nexstar is the Blockbuster Video of the television industry. And where's Blockbuster now?

1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Oh Perry....

https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/sook-sees-growth-in-his-nexstar-crystal-ball/

 

Streaming might not be a bad idea since YOU'RE MAXED OUT as a broadcaster!!!!!

Perry's fully subsidizing TVNC and paying industry has-beens Harry Jessell and Hank Price to write drivel advocating for unfettered deregulation. Reality and logic do not apply in that joke of a website.

Let's check in a year or two when the CW is bereft of affiliates in multiple major markets and his "grand plan" with the CW winds up being a total dud.

1 hour ago, DENDude said:

Okay question, what if WDIV declines to put the CW on one of it's digital sub channels?  Then what does Nexstar do?

Pretty simple here: the CW winds up without a Detroit affiliate.

On 5/3/2024 at 6:02 PM, MD TV said:

The article is behind a paywall, but the CW gets 10 games while Fox gets 3:

 

Who really wants to see Washington State and Oregon State play each other for 13 straight weeks? Geez.

14 hours ago, NowBergen said:

Here is an interesting hypothetical (or it may not be in reality) in light of the FCC ruling on WPIX.  One of their news vans struck a pedestrian adult and child this morning in NJ.  Luckily both were not severely injured.

 

If the victims decide to file a lawsuit, who would they sue?  Nexstar or Mission (or both?). If Mission said not us, that could reinforce the FCC ruling.  An interesting situation since this is not a duopoly with a Nexstar station in the market.

Doesn't WPIX use the Nexstar copyright endcap for their newscasts?