GoldenShine9

With the competition in different shades of turmoil for the most part (or uncertainty), this may be WOIO's time to finally shine. So far, Gray has been a big step up from Raycom for that station at least...

Coming back to bite them there? Those stations have little standalone value as well.

Do we know that she was even responsible? I wonder how KXII will feel...since they are the sister station of the ones who fired her...

One station that IMO badly needs a new logo (and graphics refresh?) is KWCH. Need to get rid of any traces of the old Media General era. Especially when it’s a descendant of a competitor in the market.

They definitely need to work on the news presentation too. Basically go the "opposite" of WKYC and Tegna without getting political or rough.

It's also the station that could use an upgrade the most - Raycom treated it as their "red headed stepchild" in their late days. It may actually be getting an improvement with Gray? Quite a few of the Gray legacy stations have old packages too; they could probably use an upgrade like that.

Other companies like Nexstar and Tegna have no problem putting the same graphics on overlapping markets though. It sounds like a KGUN thing, not a Scripps thing.

Media General, pre-LIN, was (if anything) worse than pre-MG Nexstar. A lot of stations languished in those days. You can see that most with a couple of the stations that broke away from it all: WSLS and WVTM. While the former hasn't had the ratings success yet (admittedly, its struggles went back to the Park era), that's due to competition strength, while the latter jumped from a distant #4 under MG to #2 today. Most of the other stations dropped in the mergers were ex-LIN or only with MG for a short time so they didn't really measure in the changes.

WTXL and KXXV now have the Scripps website design. Probably the graphics will be next, although if Scripps is getting a new package they may be a good place to test them out.

I believe WNDU was (and still is) the market leader in South Bend. KAKE has always been a distant third place station behind KWCH and KSNW (they tend to go back and forth).

But they still give them a stinging rebuke. Safe to say any new Sinclair deals are still DOA and they will have a grilling when it comes time to renewing licenses.

That makes it even more strange...I can speculate on a possibility but I don't want to here.

Are they also acquiring the Fort Myers-Naples stations?

This may be semi-OT, but why does Gray have so many stations that dominate in the ratings in their markets? That includes some that they have held for 10, 15 years or even longer-held legacy stations so it can't just be from acquiring them.

That seems rather weird, unless Nexstar heavy-handed them, since Gray doesn't own a station in Lafayette.

Those would probably all be an improvement, but there is no obvious single buyer available. In Gray's case, they are already in 3 of the 6 Morris markets.

They seem to have power back.

After a tornado hit Columbus, MS yesterday, WCBI went down - power outage. Not sure if the station had any damage.

Do any of the local stations have room for him?

If they did that, then they would get their first west coast stations. They would also only be missing Greenville (WABG) in Mississippi, and that is an easy purchase or trade. KNIN for the Delta stations and maybe another low-market Brady station?

Yeah, I think Tegna and CBS would be screaming at them if they blacked it out.

Makes me wonder what would have happened if WWL decided to protest and black out the game...

I wonder how they felt at WWL being forced to air the Super Bowl which their home team was robbed in? I do think the Saints will be seen as the "real" winners in the end.

It was also the right thing to cancel the newscast. They were probably in no mood to do them at that time, and in the morning they may have not even had information and they likely had the shock still fresh on them.

Even if Cheyenne and Casper combined were one market, it would be in the 180s somewhere. I wonder how the pocketbooks play into decisions made at DOJ and the FCC. But there is a slippery slope factor too...if they say having two or more major stations in a small market (i.e. 150+) is okay, what would stop it from happening in major markets even if they are highly profitable?