kyl416

It's not Hearst, they're good until 01/2028. It's also not any of the other big names like Gray/Nexstar/Scripps/Sinclair/Hubbard/Graham/Cox/Tegna/Allen, etc. They all either had recent renewals or aren't expiring until the end of 2025 You can usually find the expiration dates in their public files on the FCC site, either as part of their biennial ownership reports or a seperate filing under contracts and agreements. It's probably someone who expired at the end of 2024 and is running out of short term extensions.

It depends which News 12 you're watching. The Long Island one is only on Optimum because they're the only cable provider in Nassau and Suffolk and frequently used the "only on Optimum, never on FiOS" tagline, the other regions are available on multiple cable providers so they stick to a combo of "As local as local news gets" and "only on cable".

2003 was a very different era, it was pre-HD and not like today where the studios, cameras and control room are much more advanced. Kate Snow was in a tiny booth to do the NBC Nightly News updates for other timezones, while MSNBC was broadcasting from a dimly lit newsroom. When I checked Fox News Channel, who's across the street from 30 Rock, they were doing their broadcast from Los Angeles. Meanwhile on WABC Wheel of Fortune was airing with a bunch of technical issues, the bottom quarter was on the top of the screen and the top 3/4's were at the bottom of the screen. That's not from WNJU's main studio. They were doing their own 11pm newscast at the same time from their main studio.