mre29
-
Posts
1672 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
36
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Articles
Everything posted by mre29
-
-
Wait....what?
-
I don't know whether to applaud WAGA for such a strong showing or cringe on their behalf. It'll be interesting to see what happens when WXIA is (eventually) acquired by a company that can turn it around.
-
Or just breakfast mode. Someone there must really like morning news.
-
I'm honestly surprised Sinclair hasn't started selling stations. That seems like a sure-fire way to recoup some losses.
-
You consider retransmission disputes to be entirely the providers' (read: cable companies, Hulu, Fubo, etc.) fault?
-
An hour of true-crime investigation programming every night? Hard pass. In fact, I doubt affiliates would like it, either.
-
Maybe it's for a new TLC show: Little People, Big Video Wall.
-
You put that in plainer, more clear-cut language than Rosenworcel did. Maybe you should've helped draft the order.
- 433 replies
-
- 2
-
-
- Tegna
- Standard Media
- (and 3 more)
-
And not conflict talkers (Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, et al) and court shows, either. I'd rather have all-day news than those.
-
Hopefully he's not the only one waiting to make a purchase. I'm sure Graham, Hearst, and any company that has room to buy even one station (yes, even the networks, though they're undoubtedly pickier) is keeping an eye on this saga.
- 433 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- Tegna
- Standard Media
- (and 3 more)
-
I honestly didn't know any of that. Thanks. And good for him.
-
Complete with footwear.
-
- 1226 replies
-
- 10
-
-
Which is why I'm surprised Martin didn't partner with Allen Media. Right now, the only advantage he gets from partnering with Kim/SG is Tegna's relatively greater reach in terms of reaching the population as the company owns stations in large markets that AM isn't in. But, of course, that's all hypothetical until Kim/SG actually owns the stations.
-
Is he aware that the issues with the deal have absolutely nothing to do with Soo Kim being a POC? Also, I think Byron Allen might like to have a word with him...
- 433 replies
-
- 5
-
-
-
- Tegna
- Standard Media
- (and 3 more)
-
So here's a question I just thought of: If the deal falls through (as it should), what happens to the sale of Standard Media's stations (KBSI/WDKA, WLNE, and KLKN) to Coxpollo and Coxpollo's WFXT to Standard Media? Is that deal strictly contingent on the larger Tegna deal, or does Apollo have its own reason to sue SG for breach of contract?
-
It'd be poetic justice if he manages to push at least one of the R commissioners into changing their position. But based on who nominated them, I'm not holding my breath.
-
What @nycnewsjunkie said. All SG had to do was agree to put the Tegna stations in Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, and Seattle up for sale (no need to make Coxpollo sell its stations when this whole thing was Soo Kim's brainchild) and the deal would've happened. Instead, Kim/SG and ApollCox are joining Sinclair in sitting in the corner wearing egg on their faces. Eggs are for eating, not wearing.
- 433 replies
-
- 6
-
-
-
- Tegna
- Standard Media
- (and 3 more)
-
Heck, he could have teamed up with another broadcaster -- Hearst, Graham, Allen, one of the networks, etc. "Look, help me out here and I'll let you pick which stations you get to keep." (This may very well have been how he got Apollo on board.) Hopefully Tegna would have the sense to start selling stations well before then.
-
Tegna's fate could be up in the air for another year? Ouch...
-
"NewsNation Billings".... "NewsNation Elmira".... "NewsNation Escanaba"... "NewsNation Podunk".... I can see their competitors having a field day. "Would you trust news for Escanaba that's coming from CHIGAGO?"
-
I for one am looking forward to the great culling of cable channels. It's long overdue. The multiplexes should be among the first to go, of course -- all the extra HBOs, Showtimes, MTVs, Nicks, VH1s, etc. It's 2023; who needs eight flavors of HBO (plus their west coast feeds) when you have HBO Max? But the absolute first channels that need to go? Music Choice and its ilk.
-
Decades Network Will Flip to Sitcom-Centric ‘Catchy Comedy’ in March
mre29 replied to Superdude's topic in General TV
They could have easily kept the "Decades" name and simply slowly added more sitcoms, so the name change is all about the marketing.
