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  1. On 3/23/2024 at 8:23 AM, MediaZone4K said:

    Good question.

     

    So to my understanding Mission Broadcasting is Nexstar's shell corporation which it uses as loophole to own more stations than the FCC ownership cap?

     

    Overall, I'm surprised local television owners were allowed to get this massive in the first place. With the industry effectively being dominated by less than 10 companies, not only is it bad for the viewers but bad for the employees who want to leave a crappy company (like Nexstar) only to be confronted with them in almost every TV market.

     

    This is a long-awaited reversal of Borkian Philosophy outlined in the book The Antitrust Paradox, where he insisted that monopolistic practices that harmed consumers would be sorted out naturally by the Capitalist system.

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  2. 7 hours ago, Recovering Producer said:

    In hindsight, the fact that the KAZT/Phoenix deal was a time brokerage agreement and not a sidecar sale with an LMA is a pretty big clue that Nexstar knew the FCC was looking at the WPIX situation seriously and may have been aware this kind of proposed punishment was in the realm of possibilities. 

     

    It is now a waiting game until March 31 to see if the Mission purchase of WADL/Detroit gets blown up. 

     

    Whatever happens with WPIX and WADL, the real winners are lawyers getting lots of billable hours. 

     

    The viewers too. Let's be clear. If we see what I hope are many unwinding of side-care LMAs, the viewers will be the winners.

     

    This entire mass consolidation of stations has been awful for the viewers of local news. I know that these groups try to sell us synergy, but that doesn't work in local news, unless you are shutting down whole departments and consolidating their operations, but that's never good for local ad sales and local news. You can see this in the grocery industry as well.

     

    Kroger's ownership of all of their stores is a disservice to the vendors and consumers. Their stores, regardless of state, look, sound and sell all of the same things. There's nothing local.

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  3. 1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

    The 2013 graphics and to a lesser extent the current KABC package look great. Switching over to the O&O mandate would not be an upgrade for the station. I almost wish the 2013 KABC look was the mandate. 

     

    But the mandate does look better than what was running in NYC, Chicago and Raleigh.

     

    It looks better for NYC and Raleigh, but not for WLS.

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  4. 6 hours ago, Vlad said:

    Maybe they are going to get the ultimate look of the package, KABC has always been pretty top tier with their on-air appearance, I remember when their current graphics rolled out how crisp and wonderful it was at the time and still is pretty good, but it has shown its age at this point so we'll have to see how. But at this point, each station's on-air adoption of this package has been uniquely tailored and looks great so can't go wrong. 

     

    I still think the KABC package circa ~2012-2013 is great. It could work effectively with the ABC 3 dot redesign. https://hothauscreative.com/kabc-graphics-package

  5. 13 minutes ago, C Block said:

    That's not the new set – that's a temporary setup in their second 'studio.' That's their newsdesk and looks like one of the walls of the soon-to-be-replaced set with a new wrap on it.

     

    I would expect they'll get something pretty similar to the KCAL set.

     

    God, I hope not.

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  6. 36 minutes ago, DENDude said:

    Sounds like she will be taking the weekend position for now.  I know KMGH / KCDO had a weekend opening for sometime on the scrips employment page.   Good for her!!!!!

     

    The former KMGH AND and I speculated that this might be the case.

  7. On 2/26/2024 at 7:30 PM, CoopInTheHouse said:

    It’s important to note that CBS did something with its CBSN Local brand (before it was called CBS News Local, but whatever), which included revamping all local newscasts of O&O’s. This included KCNC and KTVT. These became CBSN Denver and CBSN Dallas-Fort Worth respectively before they decided not to do that, switch back to the old graphics, then hit them with the “new thang”.

    Ironically, the Nielsen boxes are only in the city & county of Denver regardless of how much KCNC covers, though CBS knows this. My frustration that the Denver DMA really could and should be split into two markets it's too unwieldy to reasonably be covered by Denver stations.

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  8. I've always HATED live bug "tabs" on the L3. You can blame TEGNA for originating that crap. In this case, it's redundant and it's somewhat overlapping the time/temp bug.

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  9. 1 hour ago, MonkeyFighter said:

    KBAK finally has a new set. It might be a hand me down from the shuttered news department at KTVL in Medford, OR. 

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    You're bang on!

  10. 53 minutes ago, Rusty Muck said:

    Calling it a failure with nothing to back up those claims besides ratings—which anyone would say is an outdated form of measurement and a rather arcane form of guesstimating—is particularly dishonest.

     

    Any cable network can turn a profit if they run lean and mean, and in the case of the entire Paramount Global cable portfolio, run reruns of only one show for days on end. Why? Because it's all money that's taken directly from cable bills. We pay for these networks to be in the black and they collectively do nothing to justify it.

     

    I don't really care for cable news or whatever NewsNation actually does at this point. At least they're doing SOMETHING, which is something I can't say about much of the vast wasteland of zombie cable channels that SHOULD be dead and are helping to kill off the medium altogether.

    She was reassigned to host special projects and documentaries.

     

    Ratings drive ad revenue and that drives profits. They are taking revenue from their local stations, none of which are #1 in any market, and using it to fund NewsNation. I guess, if you don't give a crap about the content, sure, it's successful. By that metric, Scripps using AI and few responding to it could be classified as successful, because it brings in a profit. Who cares if the community is getting anything out of it, right?

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  11. 1 hour ago, mightynine said:

    What part of "offer no specifics" makes you think I'm buying the spin at face value? I was just sharing what came up in a Google search. Personally, I doubt NN is turning a "good" profit.

     

    As for your other statement, I doubt you'll ever be in any position to make decisions on staffing anywhere.

     

    You could have offered some commentary like, "Looks to be conjecture" or similar.

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  12. 27 minutes ago, mightynine said:

     

    Nexstar execs claim it's profitable, but offer no specifics. I don't see anything in their last quarterly report.

     

    From last year:

     

     

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/newsnation-expands-new-york-chris-cuomo-elizabeth-vargas-1235401963/

     

     

    https://www.axios.com/2023/04/18/newsnation-multimillion-expansion-dc-nyc

     

     

    So you're just taking the spin at face value. Remind me to never put you in an investigative role.

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  13. 7 hours ago, Rusty Muck said:

    WGN America had a near-national reach but was run as a low-rent ION with expensive, lengthy syndicated contracts of mostly copuganda shows and a second-tier Tim Allen sitcom (as their inability to rid themselves of Blue Bloods clearly shows). It was incompatible with the rest of the Nexstar portfolio and needed to be blown up.

     

    NewsNation is also turning a pretty good profit.

     

    Where do you see that NewsNation is turning a good profit?

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  14. 2 hours ago, Rusty Muck said:

    A call sign change (which won't happen to begin with) won't change the fact they're stuck with a standalone AM they can't sell, with demos older than dirt.

     

    Have we known Nexstar to make smart decisions: i.e. NewsNation? No.

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