NewsMaster 226 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Looks like the Nexstar sites for the ComCorp stations are beginning to take shape. KADN: cajunfirst.com WNTZ: cenlanow.com I will update this post as I see more sites up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 If Brian W Brady were to sell off any of his assets to Perry Sook's Nexstar, it would more likely be Blackhawk's KSWT and KYMA in Yuma and Eagle Creek's KVTV in Laredo or still sell off KSWT and KYMA in Yuma to Nexstar but sell off KVTV to Sagamore Hill. It is very possible for Sagamore Hill to purchase KVTV from Brady's Eagle Creek and be able to see much of KVTV operations get farmed out to ex-former sister station KZTV studios in Corpus Christi to become sister stations once again and since Sagamore Hill has already sold off KGNS in 2013 to Yellowstone who in turned sold KGNS to Gray Television in late 2013/early 2014 meaning it is very possible for Sagamore Hill to re-enter Laredo by purchasing KVTV while Gray owns KGNS. KSWT and KYMA would be a great fit for Nexstar since Nexstar now has KASW in Phoenix and KLAS in Las Vegas in those markets closer to Yuma. I feel Nexstar would be a lot better fit for KSWT and KYMA and even KVTV since Nexstar has more resource and leverage for operations TV stations affiliated with CBS and NBC than Brady and Blackhawk and Eagle Creek parent company Northwest Broadcasting. my idea of Brady selling off KSWT/KYMA in Yuma and KVTV in Laredo to Nexstar or selling KSWT/KYMA to Nexstar while selling KVTV to Sagamore Hill would make Brady much more focused on streamlining Northwest operations to only focusing on operating Northwest TV stations affiliated with the FOX Network affiliates in Spokane, Yakima-Walla Walla, Medford, Binghamton, and Syracuse. It could be possible for Brady under Eagle Creek who already sold off KZTV jointly to Sagamore Hill and Cordillera/Evening Post would allowed Cordillera and Sagamore Hill to jointly fully purchase KVTV in Laredo as a way for KVTV to become a sister station to KZTV again and also to KRIS in the future. In my opinion Brady has no chance of being able to continue to operate ownership of his own stations throughout his Cedar Creek, Stainless, Bristlecone, Eagle Creek, Blackhawk, and Northwest Broadcasting banners of his ownership group structures. Brady's Blackhawk outsourced operations of the ex former late James (Jimmy) Rogers-Intermountain West Communications Company/Sunbelt station KYMA and ex former Harry Pappas-Pappas Telecasting Companies station KSWT in Yuma to News Press Gazette station KECY in Yuma as NPG has the resources to keep KSWT and KYMA going under KECY and NPG control than KSWT and KYMA together operated seperately under Brady's Blackhawk control as Brady and Black Hawk got very burned out from operating KSWT and KYMA itself due to KYMA being the weakest performing station of IWCC and KSWT being as one of the weakest performing stations of Pappas when Pappas went into bankruptcy and receivership with KSWT being held by Lee W Shubert when Brady proposed to purchase KSWT and David Stapleton when the purchase and acquisition of KSWT was completed under the Pappas Liquidating Trust. Pappas weakest performing station were KSWT and WIWN while continuing ownership of weakest performing station KDMI and WLGA with NTV/KFXL as the only cash cow left for Pappas. NTV/KFXL still struggles as well as stand alone KLKN to fight and compete with top dog Gray owned 10-11 due to 10-11 being more widely available over the air, cable and satellite as well as signing on from Lincoln as KOLN on Channel 12 in February 1953 before moving to Channel 10 by taking over KFOR Channel 10 in 1954 while Channel 12 became KUON as part of UNL's NETin December 1954 from Lincoln when NTV would sign on as KHOL (now KHGI) on December 24, 1953 from the Kearney area serving Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island, later adding KHPL (now KWNB) Hayes Center in 1956, KHQL (later KCNA under NTV, later KBGT as an independent station, later KCAN as satellite of KCAU, now present day KLKN in Lincoln) Albion in 1964, and KHTL (later KSNB under NTV, KSNB as satellite of KTVG, dark between December 2009 and April 2013, KSNB as 10/11 Central Nebraska with My Network and METV, now KSNB the successor of the ex-former KHAS as NBC Nebraska) Superior in 1965 and 10-11 would finally be completed with KGIN signing on in 1961 from the Grand Island area serving Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island. 10-11 now mostly focuses on the Lincoln area while sister station NBC Nebraska mostly focuses on the Kearney, Hastings, and Grand Island areas. Brady could've wanted to sell WICZ/WBPN to Mission to focused on WSYT/WNYS and likely was counting on the sale of WICZ/WBPN to Mission under Nexstar to possibly compete with 14 other broadcasters I could think of possibly wanting to acquire NTV/KFXL from Harry Pappas/Pappas Telecasting under the Pappas Liquidating Trust with David Stapleton as the receivership trustee since Brady already had bought KSWT from Pappas: David Smith/Sinclair Broadcast Group, Mark Nalbone/Wyomedia, Terry Hurley/Cordillera Communications TV, Perry Sook/Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Vincent (Vince) Sadusky/Lin Media-Media General, Schurz, Morris Multimedia, Randy Bongarten/Bonten Media Group, William Pollack/Pollack/Belz Broadcasting, Gene Loving and John Trinder/Max Media, DuJuan McCoy/Bayou City Broadcasting, Bob Prather/Heartland Media, Saga Communications, and KLKN with owner-parent Philip Lombardo/Citadel Communications LLC with the possibly of Harry Pappas preferring to sell NTV/KFXL to either Sinclair Broadcast Group, Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting, Mark Nalbone/Wyomedia, Cordillera Communications TV, or even Max Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting, or even Max Media as the potential finalists with Sinclair Broadcast Group to reunite NTV/KFXL with KMPH/KFRE, KDBC, KPTM/KXVO, and KPTH/KMEG under Pappas and WWHO under Fant and Brian W Brady/Northwest Broadcasting to reunite NTV/KFXL with KSWT under Pappas as the contenders and front runners to be one of the winning bidders of NTV/KFXL over the objections of David Stapleton in selling NTV/KFXL with Stapleton likely preferring to allow KLKN with owner-parent Philip Lombardo/Citadel Communications LLC or Perry Sook/Nexstar who is trying to acquire KCWI from Pappas to acquire NTV/KFXL while Pappas preferring to sell NTV/KFXL to one of the broadcasters (Sinclair, Brady's Northwest under Eagle Creek, Nalbone's Wyomedia, Cordillera, Max Media) who owns and operate a station in the same TV DMA where NTV/KFXL competitor 10-11 and NBC Nebraska owner-parent Gray Television has TV stations there as well to acquire NTV and KFXL is more of a way for Harry Pappas to see NTV gets to keep the ABC affiliation and continue to be the separate independent ABC station for the Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, and North Platte areas to remained independent of Philip Lombardo and his Citadel Communications own Lincoln area based ABC affiliate KLKN within the Lincoln-Grand Island-Hastings-Kearney TV DMA market and trying to be able to have KFXL the ability to continue having their own over the air signal inside Lincoln independent from the now Sinclair Broadcast Group owned KPTM out of Omaha. Also has to do with those broadcasters and the broadcasting groups (Sinclair, Brady's Northwest under Eagle Creek, Nalbone's Wyomedia, Cordillera, Max Media) they are associated with also having to deal with competing with 10-11 and KHAS (now KSNB to become NBC Nebraska) various sister stations across various TV markets under Gray Television ownership. Brian W Brady and Harry Pappas had criss cross with each other in the past due to Pappas buying what was then KBKI in Walla Walla, Washington as an unbuilt TV station while Brady keep KFFX/KCYU-LP as the FOX stations there while Pappas built KBKI to became KAZW as an affiliate of the Azteca America network in 2002 and finally as KCWK as an affiliate of the CW Plus before signing off in May 2008 due to the Pappas bankruptcy crisis later in an ironic twist of irony Brady acquiring KSWT from Pappas to from a duopoly with KYMA in Yuma, Arizona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Looks like the Nexstar sites for the ComCorp stations are beginning to take shape. KADN: cajunfirst.com WNTZ: cenlanow.com I will update this post as I see more sites up and running. Just because it has news on those sites, doesn't mean news operations will be coming for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Looks like the Nexstar sites for the ComCorp stations are beginning to take shape. KADN: cajunfirst.com WNTZ: cenlanow.com I will update this post as I see more sites up and running. KPEJ's website 'FOXWestTexas.com' now redirects to their sister KMID's PermianBasin360.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 KPEJ's website 'FOXWestTexas.com' now redirects to their sister KMID's PermianBasin360.com Speaking of KMID, when is BIG 2 going to wake up and revamp its image and adding newscasts? Their morning, 5 & 10PM news don't make much sense, they used to be powerhouse and but not no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Speaking of KMID, when is BIG 2 going to wake up and revamp its image and adding newscasts? Their morning, 5 & 10PM news don't make much sense, they used to be powerhouse and but not no more. KMID 2 is just 5:30-7:00 a.m., weeknights at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. and Sundays at 10:00 p.m. That's it. Nothing more. KOSA 7 and KWES 9 produce double more, the amount of local news coverage than KMID 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Just because it has news on those sites, doesn't mean news operations will be coming for them. This is true. Then again it also doesn't mean that they won't. Just take WFXR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnews 344 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 An Erie station has less than that. That station is WSEE (Lilly Broadcasting). Their weekday newscasts run from 6-7am, 12-12:30pm, 6-6:30pm, and 11-11:35pm. WICU's weekend newscast is Weekends Now which is on both WICU and WSEE because they are sister stations. WSEE used to be number one, not anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 An Erie station has less than that. That station is WSEE (Lilly Broadcasting). Their weekday newscasts run from 6-7am, 12-12:30pm, 6-6:30pm, and 11-11:35pm. WICU's weekend newscast is Weekends Now which is on both WICU and WSEE because they are sister stations. WSEE used to be number one, not anymore. WSEE has always never quite had it together. It's also worth noting that as a junior partnership it may make sense if their news schedule has been gutted. For a while in the early 90s, WHBQ Memphis, then an ABC affiliate produced exactly one hour of news a day, with 6pm and 10pm shows. That was it. The Fox switch led them to more than quadruple their weekday news output to 4.5 hours (two hours in the morning, noon, and hour-long 5pm and 9pm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 An Erie station has less than that. That station is WSEE (Lilly Broadcasting). Their weekday newscasts run from 6-7am, 12-12:30pm, 6-6:30pm, and 11-11:35pm. WICU's weekend newscast is Weekends Now which is on both WICU and WSEE because they are sister stations. WSEE used to be number one, not anymore. Doesn't WSEE also air a 10:00 p.m. newscast for The CW on WSEE-DT2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnews 344 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Before WSEE merged with WICU, they were number one and I believe pretty popular too. Of course, I wasn't alive in the 90's. But, up until 2009, they had anchor teams, studio, they were their own news operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastchance79905 1 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 ktsm.com is now elpasoproud.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 ktsm.com is now elpasoproud.com/ Not gonna lie, I read that as 'Elpa So Proud'. I'm probably not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 ktsm.com is now elpasoproud.com/ KETK and KFXK now have a unified website under myeasttex.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Apparently Nexstar is feeling proud. I give you the new sites for WVLA, KVEO and KWKT. I also mentioned in the No Emotion Box that KMSS's newscasts have been taken over by KTAL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVIntheDesert 183 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 KASW has gone to Nexstar domain branding confusion too (even though the site is still under construction). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 KASW has gone to Nexstar domain branding confusion too (even though the site is still under construction). KASW took an almost identical path of another Nexstar CW standalone, WCWJ in Jacksonville, which is YourJax.com. Can't wait to see what kind of stuff that YourPHX.com will have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 KASW has gone to Nexstar domain branding confusion too (even though the site is still under construction). Can't they say "the Valley" instead of "the greater Phoenix area"? If you say it the latter way you're either the National Weather Service or from out of town. @_@ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Nexstar names new GM of Memphis Station Trio. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/nexstar-names-gm-of-memphis-station-trio/146034 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 KMID and KPEJ rebranded and relaunched their website to YourBasin.com, which is way better than their former 'PermianBasin360.com' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 KMID and KPEJ rebranded and relaunched their website to YourBasin.com, which is way better than their former 'PermianBasin360.com' And does this mean that there will FINALLY be both new graphics and a 9pm newscast on KPEJ??? I've noticed that KMID has been referring itself in articles as "Local Big 2" as of late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 509 Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I don't know how I or anyone else didn't catch this until now, but on March 31, Nexstar consolidated their three CMS divisions, Inergize, EndPlay and Internet Broadcasting into one: Lakana. I sorta figured this was coming... http://www.lakana.com/news/newly-created-LAKANA-digital-publishing-and-software-services-platforms-to-deliver-opportunities-for-local-digital-media-businesses.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcastfan9751 136 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Big changes are coming to two former ComCorp stations July 1st. In Lafayette, KLAF will become an NBC Affiliate, while MyNetworkTV will move to the DT3 subchannel of KADN. KLAF will also have local news by early 2016. And in Waco, KYLE will split off from KWKT and become a MyNetworkTV affiliate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Big changes are coming to two former ComCorp stations July 1st. In Lafayette, KLAF will become an NBC Affiliate, while MyNetworkTV will move to the DT3 subchannel of KADN. KLAF will also local news by early 2016. What's going to happen to KPLC, will they lose the NBC station? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 What's going to happen to KPLC, will they lose the NBC station? KPLC isn't in the same media market though it has long been the NBC affiliate of record for Lafayette. Likely it will be blacked out for NBC shows on cable and may disappear at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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