T.L. Hughes 753 Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 First, there was Granite/Malara's Northland's NewsCenter, then from the same groups came Indiana's NewsCenter, and then Parker Broadcasting/Hoak Media's Valley News Live and finally Raycom Media/MCG Capital's Hawaii News Now. Now another consolidated news operation has been formed in Kansas First News. The new consolidated operation is a joint venture between New Vision Television's NBC affiliate KSNT and Fox affiliate KTMJ-CA, and PBC Broadcasting's ABC affiliate KTKA-TV (which PBC officially acquired July 20 from Free State Communications), and launched this past Saturday among the three Topeka stations. This essentially leaves Gray Television's CBS station WIBW as the only separate news operation left in Kansas' state capital. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/08/02/52925/new-vision-debuts-topeka-news-triopoly The sale of KTKA to PBC was controversial as the American Cable Association lobbied the FCC to prevent it as New Vision Television not only manages the PBC-owned station in Topeka, but also PBC stations in Youngstown, Ohio and Savannah, Georgia, alleging that the sale would give the three station too much leverage in retrans consent negotiations and risk potential blackouts of three affiliates carrying four major networks in Topeka (besides the affiliations of NBC on KSNT, ABC on KTKA and Fox on KTMJ, KTKA carries The CW on its third digital channel, no word on if a newscast will be added to that channel under the Kansas News Now arrangement), should retrans negotiations in the future turn sour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjohnson 15 Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Perfect, more consolidation of independent news voices so somebody can pad their bottom line. Make the sales staff work, and stop trying to make money out the news department. It never was (or will be) a profit center. That's what the sales staff is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 *expects awesome John Christopher Burns design package* (New Vision seems to be getting LOTS of stuff from him: WJCL, KOIN, WKBN, and KIMT all in recent years have adopted jcbD-made packages.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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