Jump to content

GoldenShine9

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2267

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    30

 Content Type 

Everything posted by GoldenShine9

  1. GoldenShine9
    Of course, we also don't know what future owners of WSB and WXIA will do to their stations. WAGA has the stability advantage more than anything, even if it isn't a legacy station.
  2. GoldenShine9
    When it comes to CBS affiliates beyond the 14 O&O markets, the number of markets (excluding same-market satellites) owned or controlled by company: Gray - 55 Nexstar - 43 Sinclair - 23 Tegna - 15 Scripps - 11 Allen - 5 NP&G - 5 Morgan Murphy - 4 Others - 35 (none with more than three each) Can they really blackmail them that much?
  3. GoldenShine9
    It's market 204 I believe, so we can't hold them to the same standard. Any old Gray set could find its way up there to be reused.
  4. GoldenShine9
    Atlanta isn't the only market Gray is greatly expanding in. WHNS Greenville (SC) is getting a 35% expansion in its local coverage and adding at least 10% to its workforce.
  5. GoldenShine9
    WSB has already seemed to falter with Apollo, only standing on their laurels as a legacy station with pseudo-local ownership. WAGA is catching up in ratings? I agree WXIA is the big loser.
  6. GoldenShine9
    Truth be told, if much of its range is in Alabama, they should shoehorn WBRC onto there too to enhance its coverage in the far eastern part of that market.
  7. GoldenShine9
    Does that also get translated for WKTB? I know they are building up a Telemundo operation.
  8. GoldenShine9
    If any network may want to be willing to go for a prime time newscast, I think it would be CBS since they are usually a distant third in ratings in the early evenings - maybe a 10 pm (or 9 pm CT) national news there (with the 6:30/5:30 pm timeslot yielded to an hour-long local newscast) would be able to break from the shadow of NBC Nightly News and World News Tonight.
  9. GoldenShine9
    The honeycomb seems to be the small-market Gray package.
  10. GoldenShine9
    In the case of Grand Junction, VHF is probably better due to the mountainous territory and numerous communities between the ridges. Twin Falls would be better on UHF, since the Snake River valley is all they serve.
  11. GoldenShine9
    I wonder if some of them will also appear on nearby Gray stations when they are short-staffed?
  12. GoldenShine9
    Here was the line, on page 22 of one of the responses to deny the deal: As TNG-CWA has pointed out in letters to President Biden, involvement of large hedge funds headquartered in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, thus necessitating a waiver of the Commission’s foreign ownership limits, are flashing red lights that cry out for further inquiry. Standard General and its financiers have failed to produce the documents detailing whose money they invest and whether they agreed to cut costs at the expense of hardworking Americans in order to pay the interest on.
  13. GoldenShine9
    Reading some of the petitions to deny and other details, it appears the deal may be illegal on foreign ownership rules, as the hedge funds are largely based in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands.
  14. GoldenShine9
    Who is highest rated in the market?
  15. GoldenShine9
    Staying out of the speculation in this thread.
  16. GoldenShine9
    Not only that, there has been zero response from Soo Kim and the other figures about it at all. They have completely ducked the questions. This has the makings of a deal gone bad. I could see this drawing itself out and Tegna walking away, even if Soo Kim throws more money at them. The outside date is in early 2023? Once Graham put up its petition, that should have been a warning sign.
  17. GoldenShine9
    Someone at a smaller Gray station could be in for a promotion there? Maybe hire from, say, WCAX?
  18. GoldenShine9
    It's a unique case but an extremely valid one. If they are attributed all to one owner, you'd have such a case in a top-50 market with all networks in one hand. That would be unprecedented and should never happen except in the smallest markets. I can't see how they can legitimately respond to such an argument.
  19. GoldenShine9
    Graham Media has filed a petition to deny, based on the Jacksonville situation and that Apollo would be financing 4 stations there. (An easy way out would be to mandate divestiture of one of the two duopolies there, as well as other conflicting market stations. Since I believe WJXT is #1 in the market, the duopoly with the #5 station would be the one to go, since that would be able to go to a single owner outright.)
  20. GoldenShine9
    I figured the ex-Quincy stations would be next. As far as the ex-Meredith stations, they are similar enough that I suspect they will be retained until another Gray package comes along later.
  21. GoldenShine9
    It starts to make me wonder if CBS will put some of their stations on the sale block.
  22. GoldenShine9
    I am noticing that Local News Live is also covering with local stations in non-Gray markets as well. For the most part, it seems either Hearst-owned stations or CBS O&O's that they have been working with, which may be because those are who Gray has the best relations with. (Then again, Hearst and Gray compete directly in 10 markets...)
  23. GoldenShine9
    I noticed Macon was one of those markets - the one Georgia market without a Gray station, and unless a trade is coming (i.e. swap with Tegna for WMAZ), there is no realistic plan to get into that market.
  24. GoldenShine9
    Have any of the ex-Quincy stations changed their graphics yet? Those would likely be next.
  25. GoldenShine9
    The honeycomb seems to be the small-market package.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. By using Local News Talk you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.