Eat News 4738 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Barrington was downright neglectful to most of their stations. SBG at least has national infrastructure, a top-notch engineering staff and a division (Chesapeake) devoted to serving its small-town stations. Barrington, IIRC, did just one HD conversion in the whole group. Oh yes Mr. Raymie... I was one of the first Barrington HD converts. It was a great deal for only a few dollars. The amount of money my whole family saved was... "off the hook". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1811 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 That would be a great purchase. BH Media owns newspapers in Richmond, Winston-Salem/Greensboro, Atlantic City (Philly media market), and northern Virginia (DC media market); so the Tribune stations in those markets would probably have to be sold (unless they do what Tribune did and give conflict stations to a shell company). Other than that I see no other conflicts. Pretty dang sure that if the cap is going to go, the newspaper cross-ownership rules are too (as they should have 10 years ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3066 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 I'd be okay with a BH Media purchase, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 869 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 WNWO under Barrington felt distinctly substandard compared to the other stations in Toledo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Barrington was downright neglectful to most of their stations. SBG at least has national infrastructure, a top-notch engineering staff and a division (Chesapeake) devoted to serving its small-town stations. Barrington, IIRC, did just one HD conversion in the whole group. Wasn't that pitiful? Only WACH Fox 57 in Columbia was that only station that was converted to HD. Nine other stations were in digital widescreen (not HD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2063 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Pretty dang sure that if the cap is going to go, the newspaper cross-ownership rules are too (as they should have 10 years ago). If not for the inane cap, Scripps would have taken Journal's papers too. Alas, they became acquistion bait and the moment Journal Media Group started it was just a countdown to when Gannett blanded even more papers across America by purchasing it. Though I will say cap or not, Gannett would have spun off TEGNA no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadcowatbk 144 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR%27s%20Today%20in%20Entertainment_now_2017-03-30%2006:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie OH PLEASE GOD NO. That's too much power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 557 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie never going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie Bite your tongue on that one! If that the case life as we know it should be over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody 20 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie ??? hello..... Sinclair is only worth $4 Billion where in the world would they get the cash to buy Disney at $180 Billion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie AAAUGH! Dear God NO! Do not bring that up ever again-PLEASE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4167 Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie ABC still holds enough value as a de facto marketing extension for Disney/LucasFilm/Pixar/Marvel. As long as that exists, they will still own ABC (and likely transfer it to an all-digital content delivery). ESPN, OTOH, is THE Achilles heel. (And quite frankly I'm rather surprised that 20% owner Hearst Media hasn't done or said anything.) ESPN is dragging down Disney, and woe be upon anyone dumb enough to buy them if Disney put up a "For Sale" sign. Then again, Farid Suleman was dumb enough to buy ABC Radio from Disney, and that flat out destroyed Citadel (and by extension, contributed to the ruin of Cumulus). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2063 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 ABC still holds enough value as a de facto marketing extension for Disney/LucasFilm/Pixar/Marvel. As long as that exists, they will still own ABC (and likely transfer it to an all-digital content delivery). The other issue is creatives. Shonda Rhimes is pretty much a de facto executive with ABC at this point and she knows when the network tries to copy her style with other shows, it fails miserably. She has free reign with her shows and will pretty much walk with her shows and the casts of them if she has to take any command from Hunt Valley, and at that point, it's a mortal wound with only one NFL game a year (and just imagine a budget cut-ridden Dancing with the Stars with ZZ-list talent). Disney/ABC also pretty much bankrolls the Oscars, and if SBG does anything to interfere, you've got them walking. Then again, Farid Suleman was dumb enough to buy ABC Radio from Disney, and that flat out destroyed Citadel (and by extension, contributed to the ruin of Cumulus). Along with ABC's heritage stations; the only time you hear about KGO, KABC, WLS and WABC now are in regards to record low ratings and dumb programming decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1150 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 if/when Di$ney ever decides to get out of broadcasting due to cord cutting, could ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and ABC Family get snapped up by $inclair? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-30/espn-has-seen-the-future-of-tv-and-they-re-not-really-into-it?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR's Today in Entertainment_now_2017-03-30 06:51:25_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_tie Beside ABC and ESPN (they've already been mentioned), Disney Channel's live-action shows are already annoying with their broad attempts at comedy. If Sinclair ever gets ahold of them, who knows? And that's to say nothing about what's on Freeform. Yeah, ABC Family is actually Freeform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Beside ABC and ESPN (they've already been mentioned), Disney Channel's live-action shows are already annoying with their broad attempts at comedy. If Sinclair ever gets ahold of them, who knows? And that's to say nothing about what's on Freeform. Yeah, ABC Family is actually Freeform. To be honest, Freeform was screwed the moment Fox and Saban bought them out- mainly because they cancelled all of Family's game shows and other programming and drove the older viewers away. I've even written a plan for what they should've done to prevent the mass exodus of older viewers and such that turned FF into a money drain. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jkXUDk2x_xN5iYThJt5hzWApaBHzSWEJiucv_J5H70k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgie56 3066 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 The only thing worth watching on Freeform is 25 Days of Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1150 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Don't forget about 13 Nights of Halloween too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowBergen 486 Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 I would assume that Tribune would make more money for their stockholders by selling each station separately, rather than as an entire group. Despite the ratings, I would imagine someone would pay quite a bit for KTLA, WGN and WPIX alone. Would Tegna, Cox, Scripps or Hearst want to enter the top three markets? Anyone but Sinclair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1340 Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 I would assume that Tribune would make more money for their stockholders by selling each station separately, rather than as an entire group. My thoughts exactly. Also, I'd think they'd sell KTLA, WGN, and WPIX last, if at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody 20 Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 TRONC being investigated by Lifshitz & Miller on behalf of Shareholders in buyout of Oaktree Shares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry 719 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 ??? hello..... Sinclair is only worth $4 Billion where in the world would they get the cash to buy Disney at $180 Billion? You ever hear of a company called Charter Communications? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry 719 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Don't go dragging me into this...I was just quietly basking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Tribune is closing its editorial side of its website Screener on Friday. But its TV By The Numbers section & its programming guides will be kept. Because of the closing, 12 people will be laid off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Tribune is closing its editorial side of its website Screener on Friday. But its TV By The Numbers section & its programming guides will be kept. Because of the closing, 12 people will be laid off. Thank god the program guides are kept. I rely on those all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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