Rusty Muck

The same fools who are trying to restructure iHeart and Cumulus... John Malone, for one.

No, WKBW and WMYD were sold by Granite to Scripps months before the Journal merger.

KB runs a 30 minute form of The Now at 7:00, which is their de facto local newscast in a market that doesn’t have any newscasts in that time slot.

If anything, Scripps will go towards a restructuring bankruptcy, not a liquidation bankruptcy. Seriously, the company is not going to be peeled apart. WXYZ or other stations will not be sold off separately. Far more likely the company will wind up like Granite... holding on just for the sake of holding on.

Who knows at this point. Something's been amiss with Scripps in general ever since the legacy company spun off the cable network division.

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?

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.