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Puck has reported (behind a paywall) that Paramount executives held discussions ahead of the WBD deal closing about relieving Weiss from the day-to-day operations of the CBS newscasts in favor of an unnamed executive while she focuses on their digital presences. Paramount denies this.

1)The biggest station revocation in history was forcing RKO General's stations to be sold over financial practices, not over anything said on air 2) These proceedings are technically over Disney's DEI policies, hardly a meaningful basis for license challenge, but easier to defend than an outright censorship effort and it doesn't put the affiliates at risk for having aired Kimmel (including stations owned by Nexstar and Sinclair).

Vanity Fair has a new article with criticisms of Weiss and Dokoupil from current and former CBS people:

DirecTV and 5 Morgan Murphy stations have been at loggerheads since early March: https://rbr.com/five-morgan-murphy-stations-blocked-in-latest-retrans-impasse/

Perry Sook offered a defense of the deal at NAB Show, stating that soon there will be only 2-3 TV broadcasters left in "local TV" (does he imagine the networks leaving their O&Os) and dinging DirecTV history of retransmission disputes: https://deadline.com/2026/04/nexstar-ceo-perry-sook-rips-directv-tegna-merger-1236867529/

The network is thinking about reentering late night at a lower budget after Comics Unleashed's 1-season deal is up: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cbs-developing-other-ideas-late-night-after-colbert-byron-allen-time-buy-1236565430/

So KHON's Hawaii's World Report is going to be an all-NN program?

Comics Unleashed is moving up to Colbert's slot as Funny You Should Ask is taking the 12:30 position: https://deadline.com/2026/04/cbs-late-night-plans-the-late-show-comics-unleashed-1236782678/

That time would be the next contract renewal and not before.

Between CNNI's dual focus on Europe and Asia (each in a batch of different time zones) and their use of CNN/US shows, I don't think the global channel originates what would be considered a dead hour of news.

The affiliation agreement with is with the broadcaster, not the station. There generally aren't contractual provisions that would enable networks to due such things, as several recent Big 4 moves to station subchannels have proven.

Trump said that an outright lift of the ownership cap would allow the network O&O groups to buy more stations.

Officially, they've issued a waiver.

What we're trying to say is that Tegna no longer exists and that the deal cannot be "blocked" per se. The courts can still unwind it through various means, but the Tegna board has gotten their wish and are now out of the station business. Note that the deal closed on the very day DirecTV and the states filed their lawsuits, a timing masterstroke on the part of Nexstar and the FCC.

As Tegna doesn't exist anymore, I guess the states will ask for a breakup?

Orby went out of business a few years ago, so no right now.

It's uncertain (and unlikely) that there were contractually guaranteed ratings ceilings.

Was that before or after the transition to Versant? The fact that the new company had to start licensing the documentaries and Dateline from NBC (and I note Meet the Press is gone) might've made it cost effective to start doing live programming in those slots.

In any case, low ratings are not actionable, otherwise the NBC body would've sued over The Jay Leno Show.

That's the definition of a fair bidding process.

As stated above, KLEW was in no position to help and the new ownership just switched to another of Spokane's separately-owned news-producing stations.

11 staffers have accepted the buyout offer, including producer Alicia Hastey.

There was a hearing in the Senate on the current station ownership limits on Tuesday. Chris Ruddy and NAB chair Curtis Legeyt gave testimony, but no one from any particular ownership group appeared. https://deadline.com/2026/02/nexstar-tegna-merger-senate-hearing-1236714485/

I read it as more about network programming, but how exactly would this combination really challenge that, other that competing national news programs?

Does this mean KNDU will stop producing the KFFX cast?