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Good point. This was from 2020: (news4jax com/features/2020/05/26/news4jax-is-viewers-no-1-choice/) Jacksonville FL has a metro population of about 1,600,000 people and they can only manage to pull around 17,000 25-54 year old viewers. The above 54 y/o is probably a few times that but even with that they are attracting less than 5% of the total metro population.

The majority of TBN's TV stations are on commercial allocations.

Probably because his shows are barter and don't cost the station anything.

It's interesting how so many station groups have come out that they are selling or are for sale but I don't recall any having come out saying they want to buy.

This is great. I would love to see more stations do like this. So they are giving up roughly 8 minutes of commercials for perhaps 2 minutes of ads for one advertiser. They could also run a minute of ads at 7:00:00 and maybe 3 minutes at 7:27:00. I can't wait to see how this is executed. Las Vegas is almost my second home and "Ed Bernstein Injury Lawyers" is one of the larger advertisers in the market. They are a big sponsor of the Golden Knights, local news, and also have numerous high priced billboards around Las Vegas.

Each DMA usually contains multiple counties in a given area. So a DMA can often have a significantly larger population than the major city (or cities) it's named after.

Estrella has (had?) a 5 years options agreement from 2020 to reacquire KMPX on VHF 8, I wonder what happened with that.

NewsNet could have been something greater. I never understood why they never updated their graphics. They looked horrible and off putting. It looked so bad compared to MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, NewsNation, etc..

A short video on the reno.. https://nebraska.tv/news/local/behind-the-scenes-a-look-at-the-work-behind-ntvs-studio-renovation

I just did a calculation and Nexstar could unload 21 smaller market VHF stations/clusters to Mission in exchange for WPIX and be under the cap. These are all markets without a Mission sister station. Out of the 21 stations the largest markets would be #32 New Haven–Hartford, CT #42 Harrisburg–Lancaster–Lebanon–York, PA and #43 Grand Rapids, MI. The other markets would be Huntsville–Decatur, AL, Panama City, FL, Honolulu, HI, Champaign–Urbana–Springfield–Decatur, IL, Des Moines, IA, Sioux City, IA, Baton Rouge, LA, Lafayette, LA, Springfield, MA, Jackson, MS, Greenville–New Bern–Washington, NC, Bismarck, ND, Florence–Myrtle Beach, SC, Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson, SC–Asheville, NC, Sioux Falls, SD, Johnson City–Kingsport, TN–Bristol, VA, Huntington–Charleston, WV, Wheeling, WV–Steubenville, OH.

Something is up. TheGrio just eliminated their only two original shows and their schedule is now just a bunch of Allen/ES shows. They've been losing affiliates and their coverage of the US is now under 45% according to Rabbit Ears.

Until they find a buyer willing to pay what Marks think the stations are worth. Unfortunately for Marks though, the two TV stations are practically worthless.

Salt Lake City is in the running for an NHL team. I could see Gray building out the station and then bidding for the rights to the games.

Me TV at #21 was pretty surprising to me but then then you look at the 18-49 numbers below (and the lack of Me TV) and realize that more than 80% of their audience is over 50 years old.

They will go after LPTV and subchannels yet say nothing about the "sidecar" loop hole.

I wonder how long until the local tv stations end up like the newspapers did with those vulture companies that came in and buy the papers, sell off the real estate, sell off anything else of value, cut the staff to the bone, replace most of the articles with copy and paste AP stories, don't make any effort to improve the product and simply ride out subscriptions until there are none. Costal Television sounds pretty close to this but it can and will get a lot worse.

Their news packages are very odd. I would never watch a newscast that was a string of these packages together spliced with Scripps national stories.

His shows are junk but I have to admire what he has built from those shows. Allen made some of the cheapest shows he could make, package them up, and gave them to stations to air anytime the stations pleased. 2AM? No problem. 4AM? Sure. 9AM on a Saturday surrounded by informercials? Yes! A lot of syndicated shows didn't want to be in those ugly time slots so Allen was abled to get his shows shown practically nationwide by accepting those odd times. He saw the need and filled it. But yeah we are still pretty far from Allen being decently respectable.