Rusty Muck

They definitely have a building. It just needs new equipment. Especially ditching all those old CRTs. I told @Samanthalast night that I wish I could see the purchase orders on this project.

It'd be an amusing way for Gray to backdoor purchase NewsNet, that's for sure.

One thing people forget is that, for the headlines WKYC had with their makeover, WEWS did similarly with Scripps getting their stations to veer away from flashy crime-heavy headlines in favor of “meat and potatoes” news… and WEWS didn’t ballyhoo it at all.

Weigel doesn’t need to buy the station if they’re able to get H&I, Movies! and Decades cleared. And they’d be the only one capable of buying the station if they wanted.

Well given the very questionable financial situation Sinclair is currently in—and it’ll get even worse with no MLB this year—the networks may be simply biding their time.

From how the Marquette fiasco seems to have gone, the mass renewal is less “despite WJMN” and more “because WJMN”

I just remembered that VCBS owns WBXI 47 in Indianapolis. They could have told Perry, “we’ll screw WTTV over and make WBXI the new home for CBS in Indianapolis if you don’t cave immediately”. And Perry folded like a cheap suit.

Pretty much confirms suspicions that this was a poker game Nexstar played with CBS. Not only did they lose, Nexstar ceded all leverage by panic renewing all the other CBS affiliations simultaneously.

They also spent a ton of money on NewsNation and no one is watching that lol

I give it a month before WJMN folds their news department outright. There is no way they can be competitive with no wire or feeds.

They could just drape it the entire set in all-black.

VCBS now has a Sword of Damocles hanging over Nexstar, and WJMN was a warning shot. They could easily threaten to void the entire damn contract at any moment.

WOIO at least planned ahead. This looks like Lilly had to slap it together in 2-3 hours.

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They renewed after CBS made a power move on them. Make no mistake, WZMQ was a total power move. They proved Perry Sook has a glass jaw and it shattered into a million pieces. If I'm with the other networks, I'm salivating my chops because this means I can get anything I want just by threatening another WJMN on them.

If Nexstar botched this as badly as they apparently did - and this was a royal botching just handing the CBS affiliation straight up to Lilly, let alone having all their CBS affiliates on a day-to-day basis - I'm not sure I would have them as a favorite to get the CW.

So 1.) Lilly was desperate enough to make WZMQ a CBS affiliate and 2.) Nexstar just let them have it because LOL market #180. This is an FTV scenario on an acid trip. A BAD acid trip.

I’m not intending to go into Speculatron mode, but what’s to say that Nexstar is the only one vying for the CW? Look at the combined footprint for Scripps and Inyo. The CW+ can be a turnkey Katz network with Newsy supplying news.

This is deeply abnormal behavior between two companies supposedly negotiating to transfer majority control of a mid-major broadcast network. Something’s up.

"Snow Shoers" on Monday, these must be outsourced from KABC

Well, it's official. Welcome to CBS, WZMQ 19.2

Uhhh... that's making me wonder if @mrschimpf is onto something with WBAY.

"It was a terrible TV station, but it was better than paying the government" SMH

The contract had to have been simply voided by either CBS or Nexstar. Otherwise it's purely nonsensical.