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2 hours ago, channel2 said:

She was talking to ns8401.

My bad @Samantha disregard every I said earlier then.

58 minutes ago, Samantha said:

But putting down Spanish-language television stations who are doing just as much work for their communities in news and public service is being discriminatory to what they do simply because it's not in a language you understand.

What makes you think I was putting down Telemundo? Nowhere in my post was I putting down Telemundo or Univision it's good for them that they're winning my issue was what made people in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex perfer to watch a 4pm newscast in Spanish than in English? What did the 4 major DFW Engloish language stations do wrong that propelled Telelmundo to 1st place?

3 hours ago, FiveNews said:

 

Your analogy of World Cup soccer and TV news makes zero sense. Telemundo 39 is  #1 in Dallas because of the growing Hispanic population. It's the same here in LA, KVEA is usually at the top of the heap due to demographics. When you watch soccer in Spanish, you get the gist of the game just by watching the action on the field. That comparison does not happen with TV news. You need context and you need to be able to understand the language to get the true background on what is being reported.

Yes you do because in Soccer if you watch the match in Spanish, you need context and understanding of how they use terms in Spanish and be able to translate it into English, it's just like watching TV News in Spanish so therefore it does make sense

10 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

In terms of the race at 4:00 p.m. in DFW, between KXAS, WFAA and KTVT, the winner is... NEITHER.

 

Instead, it goes to KXTX. Winners in July REGARDLESS OF LANGUAGE. Another Telemundo station taking another win.

 

 

That's just like peoiple would rather watch the World Cup in Spanish than in English, same thing here in this case 

I guess people don't like KTVT, WFAA, and KXAS so much they'd rather watch Telemundo for news at 4pm

25 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

And yet, those three stations you've mentioned as examples are still #1 in their markets and by longshots too.

And that is also despite the fact that Gray shuttered and merged KSPR's news department into KYTV's

9 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

 

KOLN and Gray Television are the 100-lb gorillas in Lincoln. It's not just KOLN in the market that Gray has, but seems like a gazillion stations in that area they own, including KSNB, KCWH and god what else they got.

I think out of the 2 markets that Standard got from Citadel I think they will have a MUCH easier time in Providence than they will in Lincoln

12 hours ago, AJClementeFan69 said:

 

Both could use some serious work, really.

Exactly. KLKN needs serious work too (and hiring a new GM is a start, still got a long way to go though) but I think WLNE out of the 2 that are in the bigger need of work done to the station

Going back to KLKN though, I don't think it would matter what Standard does with KLKN because isn't KOLN a 100-lb gorilla in Lincoln? If so then Standard for sure has their work cut out in Lincoln

14 hours ago, MidwestTV said:

KLKN has announced a new general manager. Kern Dant will replace Roger Moody who has been with the station since 1997 (KLKN signed on in 1996) and is a member of the Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Famw. Kern Dant's father was the first GM in '96.

 

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/237671/kern-dant-named-general-manager-of-klkn/

 

The Standard Media sale, by the way, is expected to be completed early September. 

It looks as if Deb McDermott wants to return KLKN to its roots (which that makes sense considering that McDermott has a history in Lincoln)

I'd be very interested to see what McDermott does with WLNE (which that station out of the 2 stations Standard acquired is in need of some serious work)

So Tegna today announced it's 2nd Quarter Earnings and there's some hinting that more M&A could be on the way for Tegna

Quote

Going forward, TEGNA will continue to evaluate and pursue organic and inorganic growth opportunities that fit the Company’s financial and strategic profile

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Tegna ended up as the next Sinclair (them and Scripps both) as I don't see any indications at all that neither Tegna or Scripps will slow down it's M&A craze anytime soon

8 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

Technically, Tegna owns KMSB outright now, but they are the junior partner in the LMA with Gray doing the heavy lifting. I wonder if they will break apart from Gray and form a news department (although Tucson is quite small for 4 news operations)? Or perhaps join up with another owner (probably Quincy who would be more likely to be friendly with them, since Scripps is literally their biggest rival) on that? Another question - is there a Spanish-language news operation in Tucson? If not, they would be smart to reposition KTTU for that.

 

I'm not sure what the relations between Tegna and Gray are like between the companies.

I would go out of the limb and say yes. And the thing is Tegna's philosophy would work on stations like KMSB, WPMT and WTIC but as we've seen with WFAA, WWL and especially WXIA it has proven to be costly

21 minutes ago, CircleSeven said:

New M&A. Ben Tucker is cashing out in Tucson.

 

Tegna is exercising its option to acquire the MyNet outlet KTTU outright from Tucker Media for $296K. Tegna already owns the Fox station KMSB. 

 

This will be the first time in nearly six years where both KTTU & KMSB be commonly-owned, even though both have stayed together through a sharing arrangement. When Gannett bought out the duopoly's former owner Belo in 2013, Gannett couldn't own the stations outright because of its ownership with their paper, the Arizona Daily Star. The old newspaper-broadcast crossownership (NBCO) rule prohibits entities from owning a newspaper and TV station in the same market. And because of the eight-voice test rule, Sander couldn't buy both KMSB & KTTU because the market would end up with just seven unique owners. So Tucker ended up getting KTTU. After Gannett's split of its TV & publishing arms in 2015, Sander sold KMSB to what is now known as Tegna. 

 

The NBCO & Eight-Voice Test was thrown out after Pai relaxed the media ownership rules in late 2017.

That's one half of the sharing agreements in Tucson gone, I wouldn't be surprised if Tegna ultimately terminates the sharing agreements with Gray and acquire KMSB outright. One would think that KMSB would've had a news department by now under Tegna

On 8/1/2019 at 9:15 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

This talent seems like something from a College station. Hokey a fuck!

For a market the size of Lubbock that's actually not too bad. It could always be worse

12 hours ago, Weeters said:

If you want to know how any SEC or FCC fine against Sinclair is going to go down, just realize that today the SEC fined Facebook $100 million, which sounds like a lot until you realize that 3 months ago Facebook had $11 billion dollars cash on hand and reported $15 billion in revenue.

 

Sinclair, if fined, will get the equivalent of a speeding ticket for the average person. It stings but it doesn't bankrupt you.

Have we heard anything out of the FCC or Sinclair since this investigation began? I know they were supposed to turn over evidence to the FCC by the 9th (and here we are on the 25th, they're almost 2 and a half weeks late)

24 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said:

 

I know it'll never happen, but if I'm a betting man, I would say... WRGT/WKEF and WKRC/WSTR. But like I say, it'll never happen.

Never say never though. Given Sinclair's behavior it might happen.

2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Hopefully it's only that and not the other networks they own (CBS Sports, Showtime, Pop, Flix, etc...)

 

I think we're beginning to see these disputes taken up to a whole new level.  AT&T still will not allow HBO on Dish.  Cinemax is being phased out on Xfinity for their in-house Hitz channel.

 

The networks had better start making their content a-la-carte when they start demanding too much money for it.  It's the only way in this vertically integrated disaster we're seeing with these mega-mergers.  No one should have to sacrifice a whole service because another channel is ONLY available on a competing bundle.

I think the cable bundle is starting to burst and what's fueling the fire is the fact that AT&T (the same company that's started the whole carriage fiasco) wants to shift current DirecTV satelitte customers to streaming. So clearly that may be part of the reason why we've seen so many carraige disputes involving AT&T.

Looking back, I can clearly see why the Justice Department didn't want to allow the AT&T-Time Warner merger to go through in the first place, it has nothing to do with CNN's politics but rather the kind of stuff that it's playing out now, and it shows.

On 7/16/2019 at 2:40 PM, Georgie56 said:

This is a first. WDAZ-WDAY is taking their website behind a paywall.

 

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/7/16/tv-stations-take-websites-behind-paywall?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Aaannndddd.... They have lost their viewers for that stupidity. 

Why in the name of Frankfurt would you place your own TV station behind the paywall and yet you can get WDAZ/WDAY for FREE, over the air.

Sounds to me like either they're desperate for traffic on their website because nobody is visting their site or they're trying to drive whatever is left of their viewership elsewhere in the area.

I seriously have a bunch of questions about this.....

12 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Cunningham, Deerfield (Manhan), Howard Stirk, and all of the other beard companies that run Sinclair's extra stations.  Whether or not there's collusion between ANY of these groups, the fact that they are doing NOTHING to resolve this dispute is unacceptable.

It's clear to me that this is where needs to open up an investigation into possible Collusion between Cunningham and Sinclair and actually run it concurrently with the Lack of Candor investigation the FCC is doing on Sinclair itself.

It's WAYYYYY overdue for the FCC to start holding Sinclair and their related broadcasting "companies" accountible for their actions

On 6/20/2019 at 12:23 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

AFAIK, Sinclair is NOT involved in these disputes, as it shouldn't be.  This is a case of a group of licensees who for some unknown reason, have ignored the need to negotiate with AT&T to restore their stations to UVerse and DirecTV.

 

There may be a boilerplate standard these stations work off from but it is ultimately up to the license holder(s) to negotiate.

Which in that case it would be Cunningham. Not only that but one would think that holding your own stations off of DirecTV for this long, should ultimately go against your qualifications as far as license renewal is concerned.

3 hours ago, d247 said:

KTUL will finally get some competition at 4pm.

 

According to a new station promo, on August 5th, KOTV will launch a new 4pm newscast.

The move pushes Dr. Phil back to his original 3pm timeslot, replacing the ending Millionaire.

Did you send a tip to @TheRolyPoly? If not, I will in a bit

5 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

No, I don't. In fact, Standard (in that form) doesn't even seem to exist anymore, it appears to be a completely different company now.

Tbh even though that yes the original Standard Media may have dissolved but it dissolved through absolutely no fault of their own, it was just the greediness from Sinclair that caused the deal to fall apart they way it did

1 minute ago, Megatron81 said:

I see some hopefuls running for president want the DOJ to deny Sinclair of buying the RSN's which I doubt that will happen which is just pandering is all. Plus DOJ wanted Disney to sell the RSN's because they would own most of the sports rights.

(I hope quoting certain parts of the post doesn't break the quote but if it is let me know)

Thing is though they would be doing the same thing had Liberty Media/MLB won the bid for the RSNs, it doesn't help that Disney only got at most half in return after initially acquiring the RSNs from the Murdoch's for over $20 Billion.

On top of that these same Dems wouldn't be crying foul over this had Big 3/Ice Cube won the bid but they didn't so....

Here's the link to it, NOTE: it is behind the paywall unfortunately https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2019/06/26/Media/Congress-Sinclair.aspx

7 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

I'm guessing they will settle with a hefty fine (say, $100 million) and additional conditions (i.e. no new acquisitions for x amount of time, like 2 or 3 years). I can't see this ending up like RKO General nor do I see any forced divestments...that would end up going through the SCOTUS and creating a whole new can of worms.

Do you see any scenario where the FCC forces Sinclair to honor parts of the Tribune deal (i.e. the Standard Media deal) plus did the RKO General thing went through SCOTUS too?

I think we are all in agreement that Sinclair will have to pay at least a hefty fine and will be restricted from acquiring any broadcast licenses for a certain length of time

2 hours ago, TSSZNews said:

 

TV will absolutely be around in 2041. Whether it will be a zombie industry like radio is another question.

 

I think the length of a court battle largely depends on whose administration is in office when this all comes to a head. If Trump gets another four years and it's his FCC again, Sinclair probably gets away with murder. If it's, say, a type like Sanders or Warren, I could honestly see Sinclair just packing up shop. Anything in between probably gets murky.

The problem is that Ajit Pai has distanced himself from President Trump, Pai was the one that brought up the "lack of candor" issues and had Pai not investigated Sinclair's actions (in spite of what President Trump says about Pai) the Dems would be calling for Pai to resign right now.

The bottom line is this:

Could licenses of the stations owned and/or operated by Sinclair be threatened? Yes, but it probably won't be pulled

Will there be some form of divestitures whether it's from Sinclair itself, their shell companies, or both? Absolutely, especially the stations owned by the shell companies.

Also the FCC might also order that parts of the original Standard deal be honored (i.e. the Sinclair stations that were part of the original deal) but other than that, the rest of the original deals in that now-cancelled Tribune deal is nullified and it won't be honored by the FCC

Beyond that I fully expect a hefty fine and the FCC will probably prohibit Sinclair from making any deals broadcast-related (not related to divesting of the statiuons both the stations part of the Standard deal on the Sinclair side as well as stations owned by companies like Cunningham, and Deerfield which would likely result in some of the stations owned by Sinclair that are tied to the stations owned by the shells being sold as well) for a certain length of time

Just out of curiosity, what was the largest fine the FCC has ever given in their history as an agency?

32 minutes ago, doublejman69 said:

The FCC forcing Sinclair to sell stations/lose license would seem out the question. What is far more likely is that Sinclair would get something that would amount to a slap on the wrist and some rule changes that would affect everyone. But any hearings will make good theater.

One of the big rule changes I could see take place (and this may or may not take affect until after the Elections next year nut could also occure beforehand) is the elimination of using sidecars to skirt around FCC rules/regulations (which would likely result in a lot of virtual triopolies and quadropolies being broken up)

That's not for certain whether it'll happen or not but, I think that's a very real possibility