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Thank you for telling me. I knew they weren't buying all the Makos for nothing. All those stations are will be toasted after auction time. None of those station have any significants anyway, but its still bad nevertheless. I thought we dealt with this spectrum crunch after the 2009 DTV transition four years ago. And now they want 120khz of more spectrum off the Broadcast TV grid? And then stations that keep their stations, are going to have to move channels again. Where's the money for those stations to reallocate. And some stations would have to share the same frequency. I know I've been preaching this on this board almost regularly and I do apologize. But this what I think this is just as important than the over growing media M&A consolidation craze. It's pitiful to see Sinclair gobbling stations up like Pac-Man. But its even worst for these 'speculators' NRJ, OTA Broadcasting, LocusPoint, Local Media TV and now Landover are even at their own buying sprees, but we know what they're going to do with them. They don't care about the future of broadcast television. They only care about how much a broadcaster is willing to sell for their spectrum, instead of the long-lasting future of over-the-air broadcast television. and that alone is just plain pitiful.

Yellowstone gets another Sunbelt station. Last night was the Idaho stations KXTF & KPVI. Tonight, its Wyoming's KCWY, for $2M.

Awww man! I thought about that logo with map of the Montana in dark blue, and the first thing that came to mind was Bluetooth. I wasn't thinking about that thing you put in your ear, however. I assume the program would still air on WFAA, possibly after Nightline. Many stations execs across the country are having their doubts about the show, with some are saying that the show isn't living up to the ratings expectations. Some are even doubting that this show would even last after season two. Steve Harvey, Ellen DeGeneres, Dr. Oz have all been inked with multi-year deals, and Katie is the only one that hasn't signed on to a multi-year deal. And even worst many of the show's forerunners have all left, all in the first season. The new co-EP Rachel Miscowiec promises to change up the show for Season Two. But I don't think it would change the minds of some station execs. I guess WFAA is the wise one by not waiting it out. Good for Belo8.

Checking the FCC apps tonight and it appears a lot of 314 & 345 (Assignment Of License) filings. It appears many of those are Low-power stations owned by Mako Communications. That and its subsidiaries are being sold by Landover 5, LLC for $46.5M. But the big news tonight is Yellowstone/Frontier Radio has appears to have acquired two more stations. From this rbr.com posting and FCC paperwork that was just posted to the FCC site about an hour ago, it appears that Intermountain West Communications stations KXTF Twin Falls and KPVI Pocatello/Idaho Falls will be sold to Idaho Broadcast Partners, LLC for an 'el-cheapo' $1M. That will be the subsidiary of Yellowstone Holdings, LLC. So this same firm will have KGNS, KGWN/KSTF, KXTF & KPVI; along with Frontier's WGXA. IWCC recently sold its Yuma station KYMA to Brian Brady's Blackhawk Broadcasting for $1.3M. So Sunbelt has unloaded three stations for $2.3M in the last two weeks? That's very cheap. If they want to unload any more, they could sell off Beartooth NBC & KCWY to Bonten, since they own most of the NBC cluster in Montana.

This is not the first time that happen. Just a few years ago. Maybe it was around 2008. But I know they were downstairs at that time. Sylvia was filling in for Alan that day on the 4pm show. At the end of the show, instead of saying "that's it for ABC 7 News at 4....", she's said. "That's it for Eyewitness News at 4, I'm Sylvia Perez". The EWN brand have been gone since 1996, but there will always be a time someone will say "Eyewitness News". Talk about Throwback Thursdays!!!

Its a dark ABC Logo, similar to WABC's and the rest of the O&Os that jumped (KABC, KGO & KFSN). The Circle 7 don't have many darker shade effects like WABC's.

So far it's been aired three times, It first aired during the 8am hour of Good Morning America, then it aired again during Windy City Live, then once during the 11am news. Since the station is so promo-heavy, you won't miss it later on. It's basically a 15 second promo. The logo picture is similar to the profile Pic on the Facebook wall. But I can easily tell its the new logo. You'll get a chance to see it. And what do you mean Just for giggles, what do you think that amusing? Don't tell me it aired yesterday and you didn't tell me about it. LOL.

WLS is airing a new short promo, plugging its Facebook Wall, and the logo appears to be the new ABC logo. And its been almost a year when they started using that 2007 design, and they use it extensively. It's only on the promo, not anywhere else at this point.

Maybe because of a better signal, so the Michiana folks can see the Bears Games. Not only Weigel acquired ABC from WSJV but they'd acquired the CBS from WITI in Milwaukee, also ten months prior (12/11/94). So Weigel dealt with three affiliation switches. They lost Univision in Chicago to WGBO (12/31/94), and gained ABC & CBS in South Bend & Milwaukee, respectively. All within a year.

Here's the paperwork for both KGNS & KGWN. Based on the Yellowstone ownership structure, both stations will be sisters to Macon, GA's Fox/ABC station, WGXA. So this is 'more or less' a slight expansion.

I actually posted it on this thread back on Friday. B&C was first to break that news. TVNewsCheck just posted the news today. This is SagamoreHill's lowest market stations they're selling.

Here's the paperwork. And it shows the stations licensee names that Brady owns. Anyway Sunbelt is selling KYMA to Brady for $1.3M.

Yeah, and they can save all that time and worry, by unloading all of its portfolio and fold it up. They may not even have to see the judge (doubt it, is there still in bankruptcy?). Pappas was done when they sold its flagship KMPH Fox 26 to Titan. They'll probably get more dough if they sell the remaining and they can tend to other business elsewhere.

Pappas is all but toast. It's a matter of who will be willing to buy the remaining stations. Stations like KCWI/KDMI, WIWN & WLGA could be very well be sold by those Spectrum Speculators like LocusPoint, OTA Broadcasting & NRJ TV, who are willing to sell the spectrum to the FCC for next years incentive auctions. This will no doubt be the likely result for two stations merging, obviously since KECY have both Fox & ABC in the same frequency. Since I just predicting Pappas' fate, I wished a respective owner can acquire Pappas' KSWT, KHGI/KWNB & KFXL. Let Una Vez Mas have KAZA.

Looks like Brady has acquired another station. In a rare Sunday TVNewsCheck posting, it appears that Brian Brady has acquired Intermountain West Communications-owned, Yuma's NBC affiliate KYMA 11. Brady announced that he was going to acquire the low-power stations in Medford, as he already have a full-power Fox affiliate, KMVU. The stunning thing about this is unless, it becomes the new licensee name for KYMA, what is this company's name. Is it Blackhawk, Stainless or Northwest? It's just mind-boggling.

Yeah, and it wasn't no midnight deadline, it was a 5pm early evening deadline. That would've been critical to lose primetime programming if they lose those signals.

Can't believe this was ten months after Weigel dealt with an unfamilar affiliation switch in Chicago. Nice to see the now late longtime owner of Weigel Broadcasting Howard Shapiro on the vid.

Another New Station Group. And this time this group have some stations. B&C states today this new California group, Yellowstone Holdings will acquire SagamoreHill Broadcasting's KGWN (CBS) Cheyenne, WY, KSTF (CBS) Scottsbluff, NE and KGNS (NBC) Laredo, TX for $20.5M. So far SagamoreHill has sold now four full power stations. They also sold Florence, SC station WWMB to Armstrong Williams's Howard Stirk Holdings as a part of the Sinclair-Barrington Acquisition. This will leave SagamoreHill with just four stations, all except for one, have LMA with other stations. KXLT Rochester (Quincy), KZTV Corpus Christi (Cordillera), WLTZ Columbus & WNCF Montgomery (Bahakel). B&C states that it appears that they have reached a deal, to avert the signals for coming off of the TWC systems.

SMH. Here's what happen earlier this morning. They aired a pre-packaged Sylvia Perez's HealthBeat segment about certain things males can do to increase their changes to become a father. And this what happened afterwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echtJs4AL7k Video Courtesy of brand babu from YT

It would be nice to see someone do just Saturday & Sunday morning shows. I never thought it was right for Phil to do almost an entire weekends worth of news. I mean, doing the Saturday Night show, then sleep at the station, then wake up and do the Sunday Morning show? I know many stations in other markets do that, where anchors do all the weekends shows. My reasoning is how much sleep do they get? Or do they even go to sleep? I remember last August during the Olympics where the ABC O&Os were doing the 7 minute Midnight/11pm newscasts. All they did on the weekend was extend the show an extra 7 minutes (from 10pm to 11:07pm). Karen started her maternity leave, and Ravi & Phil was off that day. So Stacey Baca fill in, along with Mike Caplan. Then a few hours later when the morning news came on, there was Stacey & Mike along with Judy, because Hosea & Tracy wasn't there. It was like they never looked tired an such. Or for the last six years Baca would be on the field Friday Nights at 10pm and then anchor the Saturday morning news. That's being a trooper. But damn. I'll be like, do they even get any sleep at all?

I actually saw that. After the last 4pm tease, they should just less then 10 seconds into the new segment and just immediately, went to the next set of commercials. So basically one of the segments was skipped. Then they had to show those minutes of ads before the beginning of the 4pm show. I was like what its up over there. My theory is they're might be some new folks are running the controls tonight and not the regulars who might be jumping early on their holiday plans.

It's basically the same thing when they show the map with all the spots temps. And if they touch the one in O'Hare, the number expands/highlights. It's like the same thing. They now doing it with the 7-day graphic as they touch the bar and showing the AccuWeather graphic. I'm not sold with the new 7-Day graphic. Looking out to the right doesn't look right. ____ What's up with the lack of commercials on the 6pm tonight? A commercial wanted to come one and the second it shows, it goes back to the look of the Buckingham Fountain. And since there's a lack of ads, they're now re-airing Roz Varon's Weekender segment from the 4pm show. Okay As of 6:22pm/CT, the ads are back.

Retrans Battle Again!!!! This time is Time Warner Cable & LIN Media. Multichannel.com is posting that if a deal doesn't get reached by Friday, May 31st at 5pm/ET, the stations in 14 markets including Buffalo, Green Bay and Hawaii will lose their signals on the cable carrier. TWC stated that LIN is seeking a 50% increase of retransmission fees after they'd reached a deal two years prior. TWC stated that it was hopeful that it can make a deal by that time, but LIN isn't saying anything, at this time.

TVNewsCheck is stating today that WTAE's general sales manager Charles W. Wolfertz, III will become the new President & General Manager of Channel 4 in Pittsburgh. His appointment will go in effect on June 1st. Wolfertz replaces outgoing GM Michael J. Hayes, who will be appointed the next Senior Vice President of Hearst Television.

The Tampa Bay Times is stating that longtime WTSP morning anchor Ginger Gadsden will be leaving the station on June 30. And by the looks like it was her decision to leave.