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It could be a lightning rod for their base though, even if they right now don't think of it too much.

Here's an alternate (and just as scary?) thought? If Democrats can take power in 2020, could they be so beholden to the left-wing base and demand the opposite for Sinclair - a takeover and shutdown of the company, leaving 200 (or many more?) stations shuttered? I know this is one of the lightning rod issues for the anti-Trump side, and they hate them for their politics more than anything. Such could also lead to messy court cases.

That is a Herculean task when WBKO has literally had a stranglehold on the market...good luck trying to surpass them!

Have KTVB or KIVI said anything about it? I wonder if they would have the guts to file complaints...

That's a very conservative market too for the most part, so you'd think they would do better...

Especially when there are already two competitors in the shadow of uber-dominant WMAZ...

Plus they can't use the market excuse either, since Hagerstown is part of the DC market...

It has been rumored for a little while.

If not for the fact that the two big markets - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia - have no Nexstar presence and likely never will (Philly is all O&O's, Pittsburgh mostly stable companies), they might want to bring a statewide news there as well, and they'd need to find room for it too (4:00 or 4:30?).

That will likely come with time. Gray is VERY quick with updating websites though; they probably start the draft versions before the sale is even completed.

Most of those markets are out of reach for Nexstar unless they have to scoop up leftovers from other acquisitions.

I'm a bit surprised they would launch it without a station in every market...they don't have one in South Bend.

She needs a promotion to a better job in a bigger market under another company.

Perhaps it is a test towards a new group package? It seems to be a slightly modified version of the most recent Media General package (there are some ex-MG stations that still use old graphic packages though)

They have hired two meteorologists as well. I'll be curious to see the graphics, since it is the first new Nexstar news operation since the Media General acquisition. Will it have the old Nexstar graphics, the 2015 MG graphics (they inherited the production of that) or something else altogether?

Bonten has felt like Sinclair Jr. for quite a few years though.

Created a Speculatron thread.

Both duopolies would be legal. Tegna/Nexstar would be allowed to keep both of those stations in both cases. I'm working on a Speculatron post but trying to do the math of the potential deal first.

Probably not to the current Nexstar stations, especially the larger ones.

The way the article was written it almost sounds more like the opposite - Tegna buying Nexstar...

Heck, FTVLive is more reliable!

That one doesn't pass the smell test. I can't see how ABC will uproot one of their top affiliates - and one of their top company groups - for such. The repercussions could be enormous there. The only way I can see WCVB become an O&O is either by Hearst buying ABC as a whole from Disney, or by a trade with (at least) WTVD and KFSN. As for just gutting WCVB, do they want to make Hearst really mad in their largest market?

Of course, it will continue to get destroyed by WBKO in the ratings.

That's what I call a career-killing move to jump from the market's strongest station to a ratings joke...

CajunFirst.com now redirects to KLFY (was KADN's old site), and FortWayneHomepage.net now redirects to WANE (was WFFT's old site), although the primary domains have not *yet* changed.