Rusty Muck

Not really. The Now killed off whatever ratings momentum KSHB had, and WXYZ did all that they could to make it as close to a straight newscast as possible. WKBW has done decently with the Now at 7pm, where no other local newscast runs in that timeslot in the market (considering that KB lost Wheel and J! under the tail end of Granite mismanagement to WIVB, that isn’t saying much of anything). WEWS recently swapped PnB with Steve Harvey - moving Steve back to 3pm - in a move reminiscent of their bailing on Dr. Oz a few years ago.

Huh, it’s “The List” all over again. Shocked, surprised, etc., &c.

Shades of Joel Rose 16 years ago. Different circumstances, same result.

I can't see them selling off WXYZ/WMYD and continue to survive as a company. Unless it's a Warren Buffett-type deal a la WPLG, that would immediately be seen as waving the white flag and setting themselves up for an outright sale. So why not just unload the entire chain then?

WXYZ is still far and away the largest station in their portfolio. I would be astounded to see them unload it. If anything, WXYZ will be like WEWS, WMAR and WKBW... underperformers but still with value regardless. (Although WKBW's issues still mostly predate Scripps management.)

...nevermind that it took 18 years for the initial complaints against RKO General to actually result in damage to the company.

Who would buy those radio stations? And is Scripps going to ask for a higher price than they will really command? I mean, it took CBS ten years to unload their radio stations...

That legitimately sucks. I knew people who suffered from them and never recovered. Assuming they caught it at an early stage, he's might still have a long road ahead of him.

Thought I saw something like this before. I was right.

Doerr at least had some success at WOIO (alongside Bill Applegate) but that might not be the best comparison to make.

The issues have nothing to do with WBNX. If anything, it has been WBNX which has kept the rest of his operations afloat. And it's an ego thing. Angley coveted the construction permit for TV55 ever since Rex Humbard's ministry fell apart under oddly similar circumstances. (To wit, next to the WBNX facilities in Akron is a concrete edifice that Humbard built AS the intended tower for the station he wanted.) He'll never sell until the banks force him to. The sad thing is, Scott had an independent TV station of his own in Hartford CT, and let it decay (literally and figuratively) until he was forced to give it up in 1985.

Ya know, had this all come down in the early 1980s, Ernest could have gotten a job as an auto mechanic to make ends meet. Edit: I think I found an advance copy for the final "90 and 9 Club!" XD

Would it be Angley who sells the station, or the creditors initiating the foreclosure? Because while Angley is 96 years old, I can’t see him selling WBNX unless he’s simply ordered to against his will. (To wit, he simply closed down the adjacent Cathedral Buffet after the initial harassment/abuse issues against him became public.) That station has been his lifeline in more ways than one.

The OSI theme had much better staying power than the sorry Gannett Rampage theme, which was outdated as soon as it was implemented.

Ajit Paid Off couldn’t dismiss it outright like he wanted to, so why not issue a pathetic slap on the wrist with a wink and nod?

Wasn’t All News Channel’s highest possible platform as overnight filler on some TV stations that couldn’t carry ABC World News Now, CBS Up to the Minute or NBC Nightside? I don’t remember it ever being used in place of a traditional newscast (unless Hubbard might have ran it at a decent spot on their Duluth stations at some point?). And aside from Sinclair’s failed NewsCentral and the (unrelated) past and present incarnations of Independent News Network, it’s not like that option has never existed before. (Likewise, NBC Radio, the Associated Press and Talk Radio Network have all tried — and failed — with syndicated all-news turnkey services on the radio, because there was no need for either of them in large markets.)

Even without knowing the budget for KXGN, I’m pretty sure their overall expenses are at least $100K. And KXGN has a one-man-band news department in every sense of the word.

Hubbard was behind the All News Channel and it still couldn’t compete. Maybe it was years ahead of its time and could have had a chance in the diginet era. We’ll never know.

Damn autocorrect! :/

Please don't tell me his real name was Bob Klinkingwood. That's gotta be a Scott Jones inside joke or something... Oh crap, it really IS Bob Klinkingwood.

Laurence might as well have done this as a meta-joke aimed at skinflint Laura Ingraham. And guess what? It worked! He's getting the easy publicity.

Looks similar to WKBW's AM Buffalo (which dates back to 1965 but has been operating under the same infotainment setup for well over a decade).

Soon to be a Nexstar triopoly with WPRI, WNAC and WLWC's intellectual property.

[QUOTE="Eat News, post: 190280, member: 2985"]What is an "Ethnic Democrat"?[/QUOTE] Look up the extended history of WJW's horror movie hosts. @YTownNewsGuy, maybe the phrase should have been "[I][B]Certain Ethnic [/B][/I]Democrat." Edit: tagged the wrong guy. Lol

WJAR hasn't had mass layoffs under the Smith family, no? Plus it's the de facto OTA NBC affiliate for a significant portion of Boston because reasons.