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I wonder what Nexstar could do with KDAF, after their mixed approach to news up to now--and Nexstar (strangely) never having owned a station in its own area before.

 

I’m thinking Nexstar would start news operations from the ground-up for KDAF and KIAH.

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I’m thinking Nexstar would start news operations from the ground-up for KDAF and KIAH.

You could also suggest that Nexstar could transfer news production for WDCW to WDVM, whether it be shifting the latter's news department over to the former (possibly under a joint branding scheme such as which exists between WTVW/WEHT or WBRE/WYOU) or simulcasting some of WDVM's newscasts on WDCW.

 

Here are the Conflict Markets where new homes would be needed:

 

DMA 28: Indianapolis

DMA 30: Utah

DMA 32: Connecticut

DMA 43: West Michigan

DMA 45: Susquehanna

DMA 47: Hampton Roads

DMA 50: Memphis

DMA 55: Richmond

DMA 57: NE Pennsylvania

DMA 68: Des Moines

DMA 80: North Alabama

DMA 98: NW Arkansas

DMA 102: Quad Cities

 

Note: Please do not attempt to resolve conflicts by selling to your BFF, poker buddy, car dealer, etc for pennies on the dollar.

There are cases here where Nexstar could easily decide to flip stations, and ones where they would mull over which conflicts to sell. Take Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Rogers for example, KFSM presumptively tops KNWA in the ratings, so they might consider taking KFSM/KXNW over keeping KNWA/KFTA based mainly on that reasoning.

 

Though, the Tribune outlets in most of these markets outrank the Nexstar stations in terms of local news and/or total day viewership in most cases, which might blow the first part of my theory. I think Hartford and the Hampton Roads area are cases where the inverse is true, in which the Tribune outlet is outranked by the Nexstar station.

 

Of the non-conflict outlets, WPHL is a crapshoot. It is not clear how much revenue share from political advertising they conceivably could get, given that WPHL presumably has a relatively marginal audience share compared to the Big Four and Spanish language O&Os in the market and even WPSG. It seems to me like duopoly bait for Fox, and Nexstar could easily leave it on the table for Fox to pick off just to stay under the national cap. The political ad revenue could be worth it for Nexstar to acquire it, maybe.

 

The most interesting point is that, depending on how many stations Nexstar gets if it reaches a deal, the group could conceivably have (near-)ubiquitous or merely widespread coverage in several states where it has a few stations already (namely California, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and especially Texas). Though that really depends on which stations Fox were to pick off in between three and five of those states.

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I’m thinking Nexstar would start news operations from the ground-up for KDAF and KIAH.

 

Throw away the NewsFix and Morning Dose and start building in-house news departments for 'DAF and 'IAH and that

includes WGNO, they need to say goodbye with News with a Twist and revive it newscasts as well.

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Throw away the NewsFix and Morning Dose and start building in-house news departments for 'DAF and 'IAH and that

includes WGNO, they need to say goodbye with News with a Twist and revive it newscasts as well.

WGNO would have to do WPTY-to-WATN overhaul and would still somehow end up a laggard.

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Here are the Conflict Markets where new homes would be needed:

 

DMA 28: Indianapolis

DMA 30: Utah

DMA 32: Connecticut

DMA 43: West Michigan

DMA 45: Susquehanna

DMA 47: Hampton Roads

DMA 50: Memphis

DMA 55: Richmond

DMA 57: NE Pennsylvania

DMA 68: Des Moines

DMA 80: North Alabama

DMA 98: NW Arkansas

DMA 102: Quad Cities

 

Note: Please do not attempt to resolve conflicts by selling to your BFF, poker buddy, car dealer, etc for pennies on the dollar.

 

Nexstar would easily keep WOOD over WXMI in a heartbeat

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KLAS is now facing some pressure to air a story concerning an accusation against Nevada gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. According to sources with the independent news site Pace Vegas, KLAS reporter Vanessa Murphy was told by station management to sit on the story in which a former classmate of Laxalt's at Tulane University claimed she was raped by Laxalt in 1996 while a student at the university. Podcast host David Pakman disclosed in a segment on his show that he had talked to the accuser about the accusations in question.

 

Considering the controversy concerning how Congressmen and Trump treated the accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey-Ford, KLAS's editorial decision to withhold the story is problematic.

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KLAS is now facing some pressure to air a story concerning an accusation against Nevada gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. According to sources with the independent news site Pace Vegas, KLAS reporter Vanessa Murphy was told by station management to sit on the story in which a former classmate of Laxalt's at Tulane University claimed she was raped by Laxalt in 1996 while a student at the university. Podcast host David Pakman disclosed in a segment on his show that he had talked to the accuser about the accusations in question.

 

Considering the controversy concerning how Congressmen and Trump treated the accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey-Ford, KLAS's editorial decision to withhold the story is problematic.

 

I would express skepticism, considering the original sources for this story. If this is true, the accuser will probably take her story to WaPo or NYT in the coming days.

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There's some kind of font-impairment disorder at the Youngstown stations...

Talk about an unholy mix of Gotham and Arial!

 

At least the ticker blends in nicely with the graphics in News89's post...even though that adds Lato to the sea of fonts being used!!!

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There's some kind of font-impairment disorder at the Youngstown stations...

Talk about an unholy mix of Gotham and Arial!

 

At least the ticker blends in nicely with the graphics in News89's post...even though that adds Lato to the sea of fonts being used!!!

 

Yeah WKBN is a hot mess right now with using the Nexstar bug and ticker with their current graphics package.

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Did KRBK require a "top 4" waiver, or did they approve it by it being in a different DMA? If the former, then Gray-Raycom should be approved soon, since there is no obvious hold up other than the Hawaii issue.

 

Nexstar made a case that one of the two (KRBK & KOZL) wasn't top-4 ranked.

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There's some kind of font-impairment disorder at the Youngstown stations...

Talk about an unholy mix of Gotham and Arial!

 

At least the ticker blends in nicely with the graphics in News89's post...even though that adds Lato to the sea of fonts being used!!!

 

 

Did you just "Font Shame" that poor woman?

 

Bullied over fonts..

 

What are we teaching our children?

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Did you just "Font Shame" that poor woman?

 

Bullied over fonts..

 

What are we teaching our children?

 

At this rate, the kids these days will never know the difference between serif and sans-serif....then they will have no regard for Normal, Bold, Italic, etc...

 

And soon uPPERCASE AnD lOWERcASE!!

 

Perhaps I should have worded the problem differently....font-itis, font identity disorder, Typographitis.....

 

Even a little "Chyron 101" may help these people learn how to load fonts into the system....I mean, in Windows, all you have to do is load it somewhere, click on it, click "install", and voila!

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KLAS is now facing some pressure to air a story concerning an accusation against Nevada gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. According to sources with the independent news site Pace Vegas, KLAS reporter Vanessa Murphy was told by station management to sit on the story in which a former classmate of Laxalt's at Tulane University claimed she was raped by Laxalt in 1996 while a student at the university. Podcast host David Pakman disclosed in a segment on his show that he had talked to the accuser about the accusations in question.

 

Considering the controversy concerning how Congressmen and Trump treated the accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey-Ford, KLAS's editorial decision to withhold the story is problematic.

I would express skepticism, considering the original sources for this story. If this is true, the accuser will probably take her story to WaPo or NYT in the coming days.

 

Update: turns out KLAS was right to sit on the story. The accuser wasn’t credible.

 

http://pacevegas.com/2018/10/breaking-adam-laxalt-facing-credible-rape-allegations-hid-local-station/

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