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KBMT sent a single MMJ out to the field to cover Hurricane Harvey buy herself http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/8/28/taking-tegna-to-task

Any idea where this KUQI news/weather update is produced out of? It can't possibly be in house http://fox38corpuschristi.com/news/newsbriefs/citizens-on-high-alert-as-harvey-approaches

I didn't picture Wiegel Broadcasting buying ANYTHING. This is more surprising than Morgan Murphy Media buying the Saga stations

can someone please tell me how to make these maps? I can't figure out how to use that site

What I still don't understand is why Sinclair looks at successful stations like KUTV and WKRC and say "you keep doing what you're doing, we won't mess with you and we'll even give you special graphics". Then they look at other successful stations like KOMO and WJLA and say "we are going to meddle with your operations as much as possible, slash your budget, fire all of the people that made the station successful, fire the popular anchors, and give you the same cheap graphics everyone else gets"

sounds like WOIO's ND could get fired https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/7/25/changes-in-cleveland

I highly doubt that Sinclair will pick up either Hannity or O'Reilly. These guys have egos the size of Jupiter and will demand a salary to match that ego. There is no way Sinclair's penny pinching bosses will shell out that kind of money for these two. They'll just turn WGN America into a rerun heavy channel with programming acquired on the cheap.

it's official. WGCL has hired Steve Doerr to be their new news director. http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2017/07/13/cbs46-hires-steve-doerr-its-seventh-news-director-in-10-years/

WDCA will premier a new 8pm newscasts from sister station WTTG http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/7/12/taking-on-news-in-dc

Megyn Kelly's 9am morning show will have a live studio audience http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/07/11/megyn-kelly-morning-show-live-audience-240397

someone paired Fox News audio with North Korean state TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV4CoJQMGZs

can Gray even own WFXU outright? Will it have to be converted to a low power station (like WAGT) in order to legally own it?

Who could have possibly predicted that a 4th rate station in market 125 dropping a major network affiliation over "moral grounds" could lead to bankruptcy

Greta says she is still willing to work http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greta-van-susteren-is-not-ready-leave-tv-1019105

why is comcast dropping them in PA?

I think Jake Tapper would be a good hire. I always thought that he should have gotten the "this week" job at ABC. However I do wonder if Taper's tenure at CNN has damaged him somewhat because of his tendency to troll/call out the Trump administration.

Some updates from WGCL. They have fired their chief meteorologist Jim Kosek http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/6/25/atlanta-weatherman-bounced they have also fired a Managing Editor, Producer, and operations manager http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/6/23/more-sacked-at-troubled-meredith-station rumor is that current anchor Sharron Reid is pushing management to hire former WOIO News Director Doerr to be the new News Director at WGCL. Doerr, along with GM Bill Applegate, helped transform WOIO into a competitor in Cleveland (only for Raycom to dismantle everything for no real reason). Doerr and Reid have a history, Reid worked at WOIO under Doerr and he encouraged her to take part in a nude photo shoot for a story. http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2017/6/28/someone-knocking-at-the-doerr-in-atlanta

I don't understand why MSNBC hired Greta. She isn't a good broadcaster. Even during my previous life as a loyal Fox News watcher (I now turn to MSNBC for my cable news) I couldn't stand her. I found her annoying, her voice grating, her show sensationalist (focusing on Natalee Holloway for years), and her talking out of the corner of her mouth drives me crazy. As others have said, if they slowly introduced her to MSNBC audiences over time, ala Nicole Wallace, maybe Greta would have done better. But they introduced her way too quickly. I think she would have done better with a primetime show on weekends.

This ratings dumpster fire is still a CBS station in a top ten market. That still makes it very valuable and profitable.

WGCL is destined to be a revolving door for all eternity, there will never be any stability. The silver lining here is that hopefully the new ND will get rid of conspiracy theorist Ben Swann.

I didn't realize the weather segments were in Toledo.

it's about time

ABC News goes to trial next week over its "pink slime" reports in 2012 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/abc-news-braces-57-billion-pink-slime-trial-heart-trump-country-1009269

I had a feeling this would ultimately happen. I believe all of the leaks and rumors over the past month were the two sides trying to get negotiating leverage.

yes, it is poor Sinclair that the victim of a hit job. It's not hiring Trump surrogates to be commentators that's hurting Sinclair's reputation at all (one of them under FBI investigation mind you)