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  1. DirtyHarry
    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.
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    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?
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    Tucker Carlson story at link: https://thedesk.net/2023/04/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-channel-network-says/ They sure are doing a good job at killing their brand.
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    @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.
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    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.
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    I read somewhere that he never made an official offer. That was all just talk.
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    You guys act like any of those companies are great. Tegna is like the modern day Tiffany Network compared to the rest of them.
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    He doesn't have the money. He didn't even make an offer then.
  9. DirtyHarry
    So what? What's so special about her? I was just going to post a link. The FCC has long established administrative procedures. Absent proving some kind of wrongdoing on the part of the FCC, the courts aren't going to force it to speed up.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    What does the cost of something like this run? I would imagine you need hosting and some kind of a server? Do you get any kind of viewership this way or just a few people watching? Wouldn't it be better to be on a service like Local BTV? This low power Christian station in Marion Ohio is on there. So I figure if they can afford it and it's legal, anybody can. How does this work technically? I would imagine that they send you chunks of the program at a time, along with other programming chunks that include the advertising. It seems like you would need some kind of a server to manage all of that.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    One of Standard General’s Appeals of FCC’s Media Bureau Action Is Dismissed One of Standard General’s appeals to get its acquisition of Tegna approved by the Federal Communications Commission before its financing expires on May 22 was dismissed Monday by a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A decision by the FCC’s Media Bureau sending the matter for a hearing by an administrative law judge will stretch out the review of the deal beyond May 22, when financing for the deal expires, effectively killing the deal, according to Standard General. Standard General had asked the court to treat the Media Bureau’s hearing designation as a final order that it could rule on, but the court instead granted an order to dismiss, deciding that an appeal filed after a bureau decision but before resolution by the full commission is subject to dismissal as incurably premature. ... Continued at link: https://www.nexttv.com/news/one-of-standard-generals-appels-of-fccs-media-bureau-action-dismissed
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    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.
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    What's the point?
  20. DirtyHarry
    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.
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    What that means is that he's trying to bypass the FCC's method of doing things by going to the appeals court and getting them to rule one way or another about what the FCC should do. I haven't read the case, but I'm guessing he's trying to force the FCC to have a vote so that he has the right to appeal to the courts. I doubt he gets his way. Just a wild guess, but the FCC is just going to take its jolly old time when it comes to having the hearing.
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    I'd whack his transaction just because he's playing the race card. He's a bankster parasite that was pushing the limits of the law. It has nothing to do with his heritage.
  23. DirtyHarry
    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.
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    I'm sure he has weasel language in all the contracts about what happens if the FCC doesn't approve the sale. If anything, he's trying to avoid the breakup fee which I think is a couple hundred million dollars. I'd take him to court over it just to teach the next bankster who tries to pull something like this a lesson.
  25. DirtyHarry
    Somewhat related. This guy cut commercials to 5 minutes per hour at his Fresno radio stations. He says he can do that because he doesn't have any debt, unlike Cumulus and iHeart. The Wolfes used to say that having no debt was an important part of their success at WBNS and WTHR. Standard General will have debt, lots of it. Thus, a race to the bottom as they try to stay afloat. Soo Kim can pound salt. https://radioink.com/2023/03/22/john-ostlund-five-minute-stopsets/
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