DirtyHarry

They will never sell out in Pittsburgh, that was their second market. Baltimore Pittsburgh and Columbus are where this company started and the success they had in those three markets is what built this company.

I was within their signal pattern in Iowa within the last year playing with my laptop tuner. Their news was so awful it was unwatchable. They had some old guy paired with some wet behind the ears news girl. It looked creepy. It was not a good newscast and it's a shame. You would think a CBS / Fox affiliate would have enough critical mass to put together a decent newscast.

WTVN-TV was a huge money-maker even back in the days when it was owned by Taft.

You nailed it. It always has some "freedom fries" fake right wing outrage feel to it. I'm a right winger, but I don't like schlocky TV, nor do I like being jerked around with obvious propaganda and phony outrage.

The other problem with those must runs is that they are not produced in such a way where they flow seamlessly with the rest of the newscast. It's very jarring, like you almost changed channels.

I don't see any political slant on the Channel 6 News. Their problem is more production value than anything else. There's just something about the way they produce those national segments that makes them look like something from a small market TV station. They need to work on the lighting and make up more. They're a big company, they should pay attention to these kinds of details. First time I saw that Sharyl Attkisson show, it looked like the kind of local public affairs show you'd see on TV in the 1980s, visually speaking that is. Just as one example. Mark Hyman's segments and that Jewish guy they had as a commentator also have a cheesy quality to them. I don't find anything wrong with the content though, if presented properly.

Sinclair does a great job here in Columbus and I would also guess in Cincinnati as well.

You guys can laugh at all this, and it's fine, but the second post comes from a guy in Seattle named Andrei Martyanov. He, Larry Johnson, Colonel Douglas McGregor and others have been telling you since last summer that Ukraine is getting its butt kicked. The mockingbird media instead has been spreading propaganda about how Russia is getting creamed. Russia has been winning all along, they're just grinding down as much of the Ukrainian military as possible, but the media keeps repeating deep state lies. See what I mean about the national media just being Pravda for the Deep State? That's why canning Tucker Carlson will be a devastating blow for Faux. They lose what little credibility they had in my circles. Edit: You people laughing, remember this post.

Tucker seems to have a limited shelf life with his employers. His best bet at this point is to go Joe Rogan. And he will be every bit as big. Political aspirations are for losers who don't have any other way of cleaning up. Tucker already has more money than he can count, unless he has the same kind of habits as his good buddy Hunter Biden.

If you're referring to me, I am dead serious. People on the activist contrarian right don't trust the Republican establishment. Not at all. And they have earned the vitriol they get from our side. Fox is the mouthpiece of the establishment. ... Muh, comprehensive immigration reform. Muh, January 6th. Muh, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine. Muh, free trade. People like me aren't in sync at all with establishment Republicans. Many of us despise them.

Of course, all you lefties and rinos cheer, but here's what people on the other side are thinking. We know what really happened. Why wouldn't we when Fox has proven itself just to be another propaganda outlet for the military industrial state?

@MediaZone4K - local news is okay, but the national news media has become Pravda for the Deep State. Anything on the national level is not to be trusted anymore. All it is is talking points fed to the media from political flacks. The funny one is Hunter Biden, who is actually involved in illegalities, along with his dad, given a pass. But they gleefully go after Trump over and over again and can't find a thing. He may be the cleanest person to ever run for the presidency. Oh and we have that Scooter Libby and Valerie Plame thing. A nothingburger, but they started beating the drums. I have no respect for the national media at all. All these phony scandals have turned me off to all these people. Scandal against Republicans and throw the book at them for jaywalking, Democrats always get a pass for major violations of the law. I'm not standing up for Republicans -- I hate the DC Republican Party, but that's what I see.

P.S. Do you consider Allen Media a top rate broadcaster? LOL Tegna is light years ahead in respectability. Allen is right there at the bottom of the garbage pail with Nexstar, Scripps and Gray.

I read somewhere that he never made an official offer. That was all just talk.

He doesn't have the money. He didn't even make an offer then.

Maybe they were just there for the excitement of building a media empire. Working for a company that has a bunch of low end TV stations can't be that exciting compared to building a multi-channel behemoth.

I don't watch anything new, although I do admit that the commercials for the new True Lies series make it look like it would be an interesting show. But I doubt I will get into the habit of watching it. I miss the days of shows like The Fugitive. It was a pretty simple formula. 1. Richard Kimble and a new city tracking down the one armed man, 2. Worksa menial job, 3. Makes friends with a co-worker or somebody in that town, 4. Something goes wrong and puts him in jeopardy, 5. Moral lesson: He always steps up and does the right thing, even if it puts him in jeopardy. Shows these days either preach to us about something (race, gays, transgender) or incorporate too much of the gutter lifestyle. That's why I like watching the old shows. Simple and I don't feel like I have to scrub myself clean after watching them.

I like Comet when they are showing something old and schlocky, but they show too much of the new stuff and newer vintage sci-fi does nothing for me. Kind of the same with Charge. The older stuff is cool, but there is a lot of marginal stuff on that channel.

Ohio has been traditionally a hotly contested state, but I think it has settled on Trump-style Republicanism being very popular, whereas Bush-style Republicanism made it contested. Not the man, the policies. I think Ohio would prefer more of a Bush-style person with Trump-style policies, but that's not one of the choices.

I may have missed it in this thread, but supposedly they paid $220 million dollars. That's quite a hefty sum for a station in Market 55. Or maybe not since they are effectively buying two stations. This makes what the wolves sold WBNS/WTHR for seem kind of paltry. I guess it's the Florida vacation thing.

I think the economics still work, I think the trouble is that if you wait too long, what happened to newspapers might end up happening to TV stations. You better cash out now or you might end up having to sell for a fraction of what you can get now.

Doubt it. Their business has grown. They manufacture broadcast antennas now. They probably just want to separate those businesses out into their own unit. Diamond stayed with the TV stations because what's the point of moving it when it's going to get written off. But more to your point, maybe it's those ancillary businesses that get spun off.

What's the point?

I don't agree. I think it's part of giving TV and interactive angle. It helps with engagement. But yeah, using the same pictures over and over again is just lazy.

I was flipping through the local channels available on Tubi one morning. Several Scripps channels there. I was very surprised to see the same morning programming on a number of them. It may have been because it was a weekend morning show, but they were carrying the same feature about some entomology professor at a university at the same time.