I'm surprised that WBIN's 6 PM newscast will not be a full hour with the second half hour providing local news as an alternative to ABC World News on channel 9. They air ET there now, but it's not like that couldn't be moved.
But then again, it's very surprising that an also ran independent is this serious about starting a news operation. I've seen this movie before, and it doesn't end well. It's called WNHT, starring Boston real estate developer Thomas Flatley and a talented and agressive news team nobody watched. Except they had the benefit of being affiliated with CBS and the disadvantage of not being able to get carriage on cable systems. WBIN, on the other hand, has the advantage of must carry that might have saved WNHT and...very little else. Bill Binnie was better off keeping the INN produced newscast. Little watched as that was it wouldn't have bankrupted him like this effort probably will.