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mre29

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  1. I imagine Tegna being put up for sale as a complete set and not piecemeal didn't help. None of the other broadcasting companies out there (Hearst, Graham, Hubbard, Scripps, Weigel, Bahakel, Griffin, etc.) could afford to buy Tegna because it was so big and expensive. Yeah, I know groups are sold in their entirety for tax reasons, but that's starting to feel like a loophole being exploited.
  2. It's only more accessible if you get TV over-the-air and your remote only has arrow buttons -- or your TV has an actual dial. Other than that, I get the feeling you have something against WCNC... I'm sure Graham, Hearst, and Scripps would dispute your characterization of them as "dead-end owners".
  3. Well, yes. But if the FCC does approve it, it should be with a requirement to divest stations in (going off the top of my head) Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Memphis, and Seattle.
  4. Well, let's hope the FCC at least requires divestitures in markets where both Cox and Tegna have stations.
  5. Okay, I'm confused. Soo Kim and Standard General aren't Apollo, right? But Apollo's still involved? And what's the point in WFAA, KVUE, and KHOU going to Cox?
  6. That's what a password manager is for. (Though entering a password pinball-style using a Roku remote sucks.)
  7. Bingo. Heck, the only reason I still have cable TV is because I live with my mother and know she wouldn't want to give it up.
  8. You know what's also a shell of its former self? HLN. Whoever ends up in charge at CNN either needs to do something about it or let Discovery flip it into something else. Maybe Morning Express can move to CNN+. The company already has Investigation Discovery, so HLN's catalog of non-news programming can simply move over there. While I'd personally prefer to see CNN International get HLN's cable channel, I'm not holding out hope for that. Remember Al Jazeera America? It had to be US-centric to appease cable compnies, not simply Al Jazeera English.
  9. Yeah, that string of URL spew at the end is ugly. A bigger issue, though, is that the site isn't responsive; rather, they're still using a separate mobile site. Also, the WVEC logo is tiny! It should be at least twice as big, like I've done below.
  10. Oh, come on. There are more options here than "stay-at-home moms" and people in assisted living/nursing homes. There are: Retired people People who work non-"standard" hours and are thus free to have the TV on in the mornings if they're awake People who work from home and are thus also free to have the TV on Stay-at-home dads And those are just the ones I can think of.
  11. Much like how several former LIN executives who had stayed on with Media General were able to influence Nexstar when it bought MG.
  12. Maybe they turn a camera on and let viewers watch them get ready to go for the day.
  13. And let's go back to showing everything in only black and white, right?
  14. I happened to notice that the top headline on WTVF's website right now is about who won Nashville's mayoral runoff...which happened on Thursday. The story itself was last updated shortly after noon on Friday. I've been to Nashville. Weekends are definitely not that light on news to cover...
  15. Thanks. It was starting to give a whole new meaning to "Out & About"...
  16. If you mean "not on-air 24/7", that's not a format.
  17. You weren't around in the '80s when few broadcast stations were 24/7 and nearly every stations played the anthem at sign-on and sign-off, were you?
  18. Oh, so the game was un-canceled?
  19. One more hour and they'll be able to wish Arizona a Good Afternoon at the end.
  20. Hypothetical question: If Sinclair were to end up losing their station licenses, would it be a 22-year court battle like RKO General was? I mean, we don't know if the industry will even be around in 2041..
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