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Exactly, when I think of generational anchors at WABC, it's Bill Beutel and Roger Grimsby. Part of it is the original Eyewitness News format took off when they were brought in and assumed anchor duties. They changed the game for the station.. They are the Channel 7 (and NY broadcasting) icons.

Same issue with other NBC O&Os. All are losing the same 2.5 hours. There have been no announcements yet from WNBC etc.

They (and Ch. 7) are beneficiaries of those no longer WCBS with the changes at CBS News. I know several who no longer watch CBS News NY (or name of the month). They had enough of David Ellison, Bari Weiss and placating the temporary WH resident.

Jen has been filling in for Pat Battle on the Sunday TINY which is significantly longer than the Saturday version.

And the one time I saw it, it was awful.

I've noticed the more space a the bottom look or at least a week now. Much cleaner. Not sure how long ago it was actually tweaked.

At this point, should the FCC premature revenge motivated early review of ABC/Disney licenses be a separate thread, since, Nexstar, at least publicly, with its own problems, is not chiming in? If trump did not want satirical jokes about the age difference with his wife, including jokes made for years similar to Kimmel's, then he should never entered public life. He, his actions, his life, his looks, his speech all become fair game. That's the way it's always been. Saturday Night went to town on Ford stumbling on stairs. Comedians have always mocked public figures and leaders. Let's not forget he gives them lots of material to work with. Sadly, he can't take it and now has ordered this review which Carr was all too giddy to comply in an abuse of regulatory power.

She has been off the air for probably a couple of months. I'm sure appreciates privacy.

Scroll up and you will see the FCC filings

This is Nexstar’s way of “investing” in local news.

Other affiliates may offer local news but do not offer other network programming and sports. Other than Fox, the big 3 networks provide morning, daytime and evening programming, with time for local news. Are they losing sight of the bigger picture trying to argue you can get local news elsewhere?

Just read elsewhere CBS has no clue the ratings for what Allen puts on already. He buys the time, so no ratings. Ouch.

Warning for all Nexstar news staff: This will happen to you. Nester's claims of beefing up and expanding local news when they are laying off and started consolidating newsrooms is why they should lose the court challenge to their merger with Tegna, and the use of sidecars to get around Congressional set ownership caps be undone. Clearly Nexstar isn't committed to improved ratings and product in New York.

Right now there is a TRO to prevent any more immediate moves, and, a hearing coming up. Hopefully someone was appointed to monitor Nexstar to be sure they are in compliance and made no further consolidation, network moves etc with the TRO. When all is said and done it will depend on the final court ruling and subsequent appeals. Hopefully the TRO continues through the process. The final ruling may prevent Nexstar from selling any former Tegna stations to related entities like Mission or other side cars. That gets to the point of the issue and caps, and, was a voiced concern from the previous FCC (although directed at WPIX's license). Whether the court cases are successful is another matter.

Like we are seeing with other cases, many federal judges are impatient when it comes to unethical legal maneuvers. Hopefully this will be the case as well. Especially with the fix being in so blatantly between the administration and Nexstar, rules and protocol be damned.

The plaintiffs (DirecTV, State AGs) isn't only about conflict markets but that Nexstar is way over the Congressionally set broadcast limits and so much of the industry being consolidated. If once the court cases are over and find for the plaintiffs, the court could call for the demerger in whole, or other options the court decides. Again, only if Nexstar loses. Nexstar's arrogance, moving before official approvals, and how someone else described it as "the fix was in" could contribute to how the court sees things. Nexstar may not go quietly, knowing they have the support of the orange president, and appeal to SCOTUS, dragging. this out for years. I would think moves Nexstar already has made with newsrooms staffing and consolidation, etc. aren't going to help.

They have also picked up some very well respected former Washington Post reporters full time, like Carol Leonnig who has broken numerous scoops and Catherine Ramped.

Glad I libr in a DMA with all O&O networks. Good luck filling all that time. Unlike Fox, the networks provide morning, afternoon and evening programming plus major sports coverage of all 4 big sports league plus golf. All Nexstar has for the CW is the leftover sports scraps TBH. I can’t imagine his stations will have much value.

scroll up, it was mentioned the same ruling.

I also read he is moving to MSNOW as the 11am anchor plus national reporting duties. Good get for MSNOW.

There probably would need to be court submissions to show that Mission is in reality Nexstar. The previous FCC already determined that for the WPIX case. This is more severe in all the potential duopolies or more, the switching of signals and closing of news rooms and reduction in staff.

That’s what Sinclair has done in Providence ABC after closing the newsroom and moving it to a sub channel of WJAR. An aside, when I was back in RI a month ago, the hotel finally had ABC programming on the ABC channel, rather than the repeats of whatever digipet is now on WLNE. That took a long time.

Hopefully that will prevent, for now, moving network affiliations to sub channels as well.

Consider yourself lucky. There are now markets where all commercial stations are owned by either Nexstar or Sinclair. Sinclair has also pulled their trick of moving the ABC affiliate to a sub channel of one of the other stations they own. This is what trump and Barr's decision is bringing. Limited local competition, just two newsrooms and limited alternative voices.

They will do what they did with WPIX in New York after they bought Tribune stations. They waited as long as they could hoping ownership limits would be eliminated, then sold it to a third party with an immediate right to buy it back, waited a year, then bought it under the Mission side car name. Not the most honest business practice but typical of Nexstar deals. They also look past the news ratings for other revenue. When their predecessor LIN merged with Media General they chose not to retain the top rated news station (NBC) and sold it to Sinclair. They kept the CBS/FOX duopoly - because of football ad revenue.