CircleSeven 1944 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Alrighty. After over a year, the Grant deal has finally been completed. It was closed on Monday (12/1). KGCW was acquired by failed station waiver, and KLJB is now owned by Marshall Broadcasting. If there's any significance to this closing, the "Grant" name is now gone for good. Grant use to own stations in Chicago & Philly, and among other cities. Grant will always be remembered for those distinctive style logos. The "Super 66" logo will forever be lodged in my memory. Grant. RIP Milton Grant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 96 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 And it's time to change web address and web platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Alrighty. After over a year, the Grant deal has finally been completed. It was closed on Monday (12/1). KGCW was acquired by failed station waiver, and KLJB is now owned by Marshall Broadcasting. If there's any significance to this closing, the "Grant" name is now gone for good. Grant use to own stations in Chicago & Philly, and among other cities. Grant will always be remembered for those distinctive style logos. The "Super 66" logo will forever be lodged in my memory. Grant. RIP Milton Grant. And the Nexstar triopoly in the Quad Cities is official. Now it's only a matter of time before WHBF takes over the 9pm news on KLJB. KWQC produces the news for KLJB as of right now and apparently the contract with Media General lasts until the end of 2015. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/80497/at-last-fcc-oks-nexstar-buy-of-grant-tvs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I also want to point out. If you want to look how the M&A craze is affected, look at the Quad Cities market. Within one year, all the major stations have new owners. 4 = Citadel > Nexstar 6 = Young > Media General 8 = Local TV > Tribune 18 = Grant > Marshall (Nexstar) 26 = Grant > Nexstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1509 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I also want to point out. If you want to look how the M&A craze is affected, look at the Quad Cities market. Within one year, all the major stations have new owners. 4 = Citadel > Nexstar 6 = Young > Media General 8 = Local TV > Tribune 18 = Grant > Marshall (Nexstar) 26 = Grant > Nexstar One of the few markets to see a complete overhaul with no Sinclair in sight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 One of the few markets to see a complete overhaul with no Sinclair in sight... Thank god for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Alrighty. At last!!! The FCC has conditionally granted the KPEJ/KMSS apps to Marshall. The FCC has also greenlighted the WEVV deal to Bayou City. Therefore, after 19 months, the ComCorp acquisition has FINALLY been greenlighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1509 Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Alrighty. At last!!! The FCC has conditionally granted the KPEJ/KMSS apps to Marshall. The FCC has also greenlighted the WEVV deal to Bayou City. Therefore, after 19 months, the ComCorp acquisition has FINALLY been greenlighted. I guess those stations weren't valuable enough to get another buyer to scoop them up, since the outside date had passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Looks like the long-lasted ComCorp may have finally been closed. Although (at this time) no announcement has been made. Although, if there's any indication, the WEVV deal to Bayou City was closed on New Year's Day. And Nexstar is now listing the ComCorp stations on its website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Okay, the rest of the closing papers were posted yesterday (1/6). All closed on New Year's Day. ComCorp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leavellebrett 85 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 WTAJ just started doing Forecast Firsts on every newscast this evening, not just the 11PM (where they initially did it since launching their HD newscasts in 2013). Are there any other Nexstar stations that just started implementing this change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swillh2k2 203 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 WTAJ just started doing Forecast Firsts on every newscast this evening, not just the 11PM (where they initially did it since launching their HD newscasts in 2013). Are there any other Nexstar stations that just started implementing this change? WATN was doing it as recently as their relaunch. I believe WROC (I might be mistaken) does as well. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I'm sure there are users in those markets that can correct me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 WATN was doing it as recently as their relaunch. I believe WROC (I might be mistaken) does as well. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I'm sure there are users in those markets that can correct me. I know KSEE does it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LorenKarr 18 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 WOI started in with the "Forecast First" shortly after Nexstar took over. The midday newscast, too. I'm not sure about mornings, as I seldom watch local news in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Forecast First is a mandate - from a producer standpoint - a stupid one. I'm sure that KLAS will be a different beast, but for 98% of the other stations, if it's not happening already, it will be on every newscast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Forecast First is a mandate - from a producer standpoint - a stupid one. I'm sure that KLAS will be a different beast, but for 98% of the other stations, if it's not happening already, it will be on every newscast. KTVX doesn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who?cares 253 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 KTVX doesn't do it. I just know when corporate came into the station I work for, they redid our rundowns and made it mandatory. Our News Director hates it, and tried to get rid of it, but corporate said no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Along with KASW, the KCWI deal was also greenlighted on the same day. .....and now the KLAS one has just been greenlighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I have started searching for possible websites for the ComCorp stations and it appears as if I found a few. WVLA: batonrougehomepage.com KETK: easttexasmatters.com KWKT: ourcentraltexas.com Still can't find the one for KTSM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I have started searching for possible websites for the ComCorp stations and it appears as if I found a few. WVLA: batonrougehomepage.com KETK: easttexasmatters.com KWKT: ourcentraltexas.com Still can't find the one for KTSM. I wonder what KLAS and KASW's will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 869 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Why does Nexstar insist on these clunky domain names anyway? Nothing straightforward? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 743 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Why does Nexstar insist on these clunky domain names anyway? Nothing straightforward? It's kinda their M.O. for some reason for their website names to not make much sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 It's kinda their M.O. for some reason for their website names to not make much sense. I think there are two reasons they would give: #1. They own multi-station markets. "fourstateshomepage.com" allows them to combine the websites for KSNF and KODE, for instance — and Nexstar has many of these multi-station operations. #2. Attempts to make them portals less tied to a station, as they'd also feature other content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easttxtv 7 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I have started searching for possible websites for the ComCorp stations and it appears as if I found a few. KETK: easttexasmatters.com I wondered what kind of tagline / image campaign they might come up with.... (Well, it'll probably be better to me eventually than the ketknbc domain has been) Can't wait to see what else Nexstar does with them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Can't wait to see what else Nexstar does with them! Look G and a better Stephen Arnold package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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