Eat News 4738 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Highly unlikely. There's no market for a third news department in Billings. Besides, Nexstar would have to do a major renovation of the building. The "news studio" is the size of a closet. If they renovated the bathrooms or kitchen they would greatly increase the value of the station. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 If they renovated the bathrooms or kitchen they would greatly increase the value of the station.But they don't normally want to sell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Nexstar has changed the name of the statewide newscast to West Virginia Tonight, prior name was Tonight Live until 2012. Prior to that was West Virginia Tonight Live. They have also started to air reports from WHAG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 97 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 WEVD is a WMDT translator, but I'm surprised it still hasn't been converted to digital. The FCC's TV Query says its application is still pending. Maybe it's because of ABC O&O WPVI, which claims Dover as part of its coverage area and doesn't want another ABC affiliate encroaching on its turf? One more oddity: WEVD's analog transmitter is in Dover, but its proposed digital stick is in Middletown (New Castle County) and would put out a marginal signal at best to Dover. Does WMDT want to be a Delaware station rather than a Salisbury station? http://www.rabbitears.info/contour.php?appid=2003083&map=Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padrechuck 25 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Nexstar has changed the name of the statewide newscast to West Virginia Tonight, prior name was Tonight Live until 2012. Prior to that was West Virginia Tonight Live. They have also started to air reports from WHAG I believe WHAG is also airing the program at 5:30 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I believe WHAG is also airing the program at 5:30 as well. I found this on IG feed of anchor Dan Thorn. [MEDIA=instagram]BGHwlVazNlp[/MEDIA] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 So let me get this straight, Nexstar owns so many stations that their acquisition of Media General to get even more stations will put them over the limit for the number of stations a company can own, so they'll have to sell stations in order to acquire MG in order to get more stations in the end? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 So let me get this straight, Nexstar owns so many stations that their acquisition of Media General to get even more stations will put them over the limit for the number of stations a company can own, so they'll have to sell stations in order to acquire MG in order to get more stations in the end? Yes. Which makes this deal a disaster in the making. If you think of sheer news departments owned, post-merger Nexstar would have nearly 100. Sinclair doesn't even have 60 news departments currently running. Given the headaches Sinclair has had with their rapid growth and that some stations still don't have upgrades, how Nexstar will navigate a far larger mass will be problematic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Yes. Which makes this deal a disaster in the making. If you think of sheer news departments owned, post-merger Nexstar would have nearly 100. Sinclair doesn't even have 60 news departments currently running. Given the headaches Sinclair has had with their rapid growth and that some stations still don't have upgrades, how Nexstar will navigate a far larger mass will be problematic.That's what everyone in the media industry said about Sinclair and Albritton 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Well the trend definitely seems to be only having a few mega-broadcast corporations. I'm curious to see how this turns out and if Nexstar will have bitten off more than it can true. Operating nearly 100 newsrooms seems like a gargantuan task and some stations are going to be either forgotten about or placed way low on the totem pole, which is highly unfortunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1509 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Well the trend definitely seems to be only having a few mega-broadcast corporations. I'm curious to see how this turns out and if Nexstar will have bitten off more than it can true. Operating nearly 100 newsrooms seems like a gargantuan task and some stations are going to be either forgotten about or placed way low on the totem pole, which is highly unfortunate. Especially since a good number of MG and Nexstar stations are in 3rd or 4th place in their markets. It isn't as easy as with, say, Raycom or Gray, who have a lot of market-dominant stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Well the trend definitely seems to be only having a few mega-broadcast corporations. I'm curious to see how this turns out and if Nexstar will have bitten off more than it can true. Operating nearly 100 newsrooms seems like a gargantuan task and some stations are going to be either forgotten about or placed way low on the totem pole, which is highly unfortunate.About there being a few mega-broadcast corps, even cable companies are doing this (especially charter with time warner which was going to be bought by comcast before it and time warner called it off) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I believe WHAG is also airing the program at 5:30 as well. WHAG promo for West Virginia Tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I guess we know which SAM package WHAG will be getting when they go independent... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexagonal10 84 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Same graphics as WFXR/KMID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I guess we know which SAM package WHAG will be getting when they go independent... What is really odd out of all the WVMH stations WVNS uses Inergy and rest use Aerial. Finale is still used Decision Makers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 When I looked at that page a couple of weeks ago, it was still showing those two dated logos. Okay their two different sets of logos. The one that's posted on the yourbigsky twitter page is different from the logos that are displayed on its website front page (where it says POWERED BY). The question is which one they use on the air? Okay Follow-up. I'm not too sure when they changed it but their twitter feed is now updated. The logos matches the ones from the website. To me, the one that was posted before (specifically the Fox one, which was a carbon-copy of KDVR) looked extremely cheap. But I'm tired of seeing yet ANOTHER Nexstar Fox station with the same vertical-stacking logo. And it really doesn't look right with a singular-number station. I just hope they don't splew this shit into the MG stations. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Nexstar plans to do a companywide community service for all of their markets to commemorate its 20th anniversary on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Nexstar plans to do a companywide community service for all of their markets to commemorate its 20th anniversary on Friday. Picking up trash from the freeway just like common criminals...just to get a few extra hours per week. Be sure to wave and honk! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Dillweed 73 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 And more subchannels are coming to Nexstar. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-largest-multicast-network-distribution-launch-in-history-nexstar-broadcasting-group-inc-mission-broadcasting-inc-and-white-knight-broadcasting-inc-to-roll-out-escape-grit-laff-and-bounce-tv-300285070.html#continue-jump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
news89 467 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 And more subchannels are coming to Nexstar. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-largest-multicast-network-distribution-launch-in-history-nexstar-broadcasting-group-inc-mission-broadcasting-inc-and-white-knight-broadcasting-inc-to-roll-out-escape-grit-laff-and-bounce-tv-300285070.html#continue-jump Wow that is shocking. About time they jump on the bandwagon. Since they are wanting MG so bad I guess they seen the need to start now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2059 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Wow that is shocking. About time they jump on the bandwagon. Since they are wanting MG so bad I guess they seen the need to start now. Too bad most of the deals involve networks already snapped up by Scripps and Sinclair, and with Bounce, several markets which are just plain percentage-filling without viewer impact. In Green Bay WFRV is getting Bounce TV, which is nearly wholly incompatible with the demographics of Northeast Wisconsin, since Laff, Escape and Grit were already long snapped up. Same with Eau Claire/La Crosse with WLAX/WEUX. It just seems like such a johnny-come-lately deal I'm surprised they didn't also mention any of Luken's networks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 The CW is coming to Western North Dakota. NorthPine.com stated that KX stations in North Dakota is adding The CW on its .2 subchannel, replacing its Weather stream. NORTH DAKOTA: The CW has been added on Nexstar's KXMB (Bismarck), KXMC (Minot), KXMA (Dickinson), and KXMC (Williston). The stations, which are primary CBS affiliates, have also dropped their 24-hour weather channel but continue to offer the stream online. This is the first time the CW has had a broadcast affiliate in the western North Dakota market, which also still lacks a MyNetworkTV station and never had a WB broadcast affiliate. The CW, and the WB prior to that, had been seen on the cable-only "KMWK" channel. (7/1/2016) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 393 Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (Posting here because this station will end up with Nexstar) WSAV has acquired the CW affiliation for their 3.2 subchannel. The current MyNetworkTV/Me-TV combo on there is being moved to 3.3. This leaves locally owned WGSA without a network and likely spectrum bait. http://wsav.com/2016/08/02/wsav-proud-to-announce-wsav-cw-beginning-september-12/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 (Posting here because this station will end up with Nexstar) WSAV has acquired the CW affiliation for their 3.2 subchannel. The current MyNetworkTV/Me-TV combo on there is being moved to 3.3. This leaves locally owned WGSA without a network and likely spectrum bait. http://wsav.com/2016/08/02/wsav-proud-to-announce-wsav-cw-beginning-september-12/ Weren't they bound to be spectrum bait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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