CLETVFan 367 Posted March 17, 2017 Posted March 17, 2017 All the Raycom Media stations are off U-Verse. This comes while CBS is airing the March Madness games. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/03/subscribers_have_options_in_at.html#incart_river_index
CircleSeven 1960 Posted March 28, 2017 Posted March 28, 2017 Raycom is launching a National Investigation Unit. It will be led by WVUE's anchor & investigative reporter Lee Zurik.
CircleSeven 1960 Posted April 3, 2017 Posted April 3, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright for ~$51.8M.
GoldenShine9 1514 Posted April 3, 2017 Posted April 3, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright. That seemed inevitable for a while.
TheRolyPoly 2573 Posted April 3, 2017 Posted April 3, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright. That was coming eventually so no surprise here, considering that its been Raycom-esque for a while now.
TennTV1983 806 Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright for ~$51.8M. That was to be expected eventually as WVUE had been running as a quasi-Raycom station for a while anyway.
Samantha 2898 Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 That was to be expected eventually as WVUE had been running as a quasi-Raycom station for a while anyway. At this point, this is a license acquisition.
Mrtraveler01 738 Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright for ~$51.8M. Benson really did do a great job turning around that station. Remember this was a station that Emmis had a difficult time getting anyone to buy it right after Katrina, it was also a 3rd place station with a barebones news operation compared to WWL and WDSU. He invested a lot of time and money into that station to the point that it has ended WWL's dominance in New Orleans. I have a feeling that Raycom will keep up with the investment and keep the station competitive.
cna247 174 Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 Wonder if this will lead to an affiliation switch. With Benson out, there is no reason for FOX to not go after WGNO and WNOL to create a Fox/MyNet duopoly in an NFC market, meaning ABC would end up on WVUE again.
scrabbleship 429 Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 Wonder if this will lead to an affiliation switch. With Benson out, there is no reason for FOX to not go after WGNO and WNOL to create a Fox/MyNet duopoly in an NFC market, meaning ABC would end up on WVUE again. Outside being an NFC market, what do WGNO and WNOL bring to the table for Fox? Granted it could be a good throw-in alongside KCPQ/KZJO and WPHL but the work that would be done is near WJZY level.
mre29 1553 Posted April 5, 2017 Posted April 5, 2017 Outside being an NFC market, what do WGNO and WNOL bring to the table for Fox? Granted it could be a good throw-in alongside KCPQ/KZJO and WPHL but the work that would be done is near WJZY level. I would think Tribune would be hard-pressed to say no...
Rusty Muck 4398 Posted April 6, 2017 Posted April 6, 2017 Wonder if this will lead to an affiliation switch. With Benson out, there is no reason for FOX to not go after WGNO and WNOL to create a Fox/MyNet duopoly in an NFC market, meaning ABC would end up on WVUE again. You're forgetting that Fox took a minority ownership stake in WVUE's then-owner Savoy back in 1995, which instigated the affiliation switch.
CircleSeven 1960 Posted April 7, 2017 Posted April 7, 2017 Okay. I didn't understand this. Benson is still going to have "minority interest" in WVUE? It didn't say that on the paperwork. Did I miss anything?
CircleSeven 1960 Posted April 28, 2017 Posted April 28, 2017 Scott from FTVLive said that a meeting was held today at WTXL with the higher ups at Raycom. Raycom is expected to close the Calkins sale on Monday.
RGSJenkins 435 Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 KWES switched to the graphics on Thursday and they now use The Rock.
NEOMatrix 1307 Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 Could Raycom go after the Tribune stations? I hope not. Nexstar or Sinclair would run WJW or WOIO into the ground.
atlnews2 592 Posted May 1, 2017 Posted May 1, 2017 Could Raycom go after the Tribune stations? Raycom can't afford to make that kind of purchase
NEOMatrix 1307 Posted May 2, 2017 Posted May 2, 2017 Raycom would more likely buy WFMJ than buy all of Tribune.
CircleSeven 1960 Posted May 15, 2017 Posted May 15, 2017 BREAKING NEWS!!! Benson is cashing out. Raycom will be acquiring WVUE outright for ~$51.8M. It's been greenlighted. Six weeks.
oklahomanewsman 210 Posted May 16, 2017 Posted May 16, 2017 Could Raycom go after the Tribune stations? I say some of them that Sinclair may have to sell off (possibly entering the Oklahoma City market with the purchase of either the KFOR-KAUT duopoly or the KOKH-KOCB duopoly and a few others)
memnews 36 Posted June 22, 2017 Posted June 22, 2017 WMC/Memphis debuted a tweaked version of the current Raycom package today. The color they use for the graphics has become a darker blue, but most notably, they've stretched the lower thirds and some other on-screen graphics to take up more of the screen space. This was likely driven by a desire to include more text in the L3s and utilize HD screen area, but personally I think the entire look was cleaner within the safe zone. You can see the new look contrasted with the unchanged weather graphics in one of my photos attached to this post. The other shows the increased room for text on the L3s as well as the fact that the live bug has moved from the top left of the screen to above the time/temp bug. The time/temp bug in particular looks worse now, in my opinion, given the increased empty space and slight squeeze forced on the station's logo.
TennTV1983 806 Posted June 22, 2017 Posted June 22, 2017 It's been like that since yesterday, actually.
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