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TEGNA To Acquire Dispatch Broadcast Group


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13 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

KGW and WBIR used This Is Home with the TENGA graphics for a month or two before switching to C Clarity in 2018. At least they kept their VO's.

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2 hours ago, ttvn2000 said:

Surprised to see collaboration between WTHR and "Team TEGNA" so soon - Chuck Lofton from WTHR is working for First Coast News in Jacksonville, along with WKYC's Betsy Kling:

 

https://twitter.com/ChuckWTHR/status/1168680674880040961

WBNS has someone newer on staff who was last at KREM. She started slightly before the merger but I wonder if she got the inside word from somebody.

 

https://www.10tv.com/users/brittany-bailey

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2 hours ago, DirtyHarry said:

WBNS has someone newer on staff who was last at KREM. She started slightly before the merger but I wonder if she got the inside word from somebody.

 

https://www.10tv.com/users/brittany-bailey

 

Either that, or she’s disappointed to have escaped TEGNA for Dispatch only to return to the fold... 

 

At least the 10TV folks have someone on staff to bring the team up to speed on their new reality... 

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Bumping this up: just wanted to say that, per what I've seen of the Gatehouse papers after the merger happened (I was worried that the Gatehouse papers would become USA Today Network papers and be even worse post-merger), what I thought would happen has not come to pass-- the Gatehouse papers are now credited to Gannett, but still retain Gatehouse layouts, per this example from today's Spartanburg Herald-Journal:

 

https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=list&tfp_id=SC_HJ

 

I was glad about this, because I didn't want the USA Today Network to swallow up the Herald-Journal alongside the Greenville News and Anderson Independent-Mail!

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1 hour ago, bmasters1 said:

Bumping this up: just wanted to say that, per what I've seen of the Gatehouse papers after the merger happened (I was worried that the Gatehouse papers would become USA Today Network papers and be even worse post-merger), what I thought would happen has not come to pass-- the Gatehouse papers are now credited to Gannett, but still retain Gatehouse layouts, per this example from today's Spartanburg Herald-Journal:

 

https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=list&tfp_id=SC_HJ

 

I was glad about this, because I didn't want the USA Today Network to swallow up the Herald-Journal alongside the Greenville News and Anderson Independent-Mail!

The merger was finalized a month ago. Way too soon to see what might or might not happen, particularly with it being the busy holiday season.  

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4 hours ago, Greggo said:

The merger was finalized a month ago. Way too soon to see what might or might not happen, particularly with it being the busy holiday season.  

 

So basically, you think the Herald-Journal, Florida Times-Union, and other former Gatehouses might still end up being USA Today Network papers?

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On 12/26/2019 at 6:44 PM, bmasters1 said:

 

So basically, you think the Herald-Journal, Florida Times-Union, and other former Gatehouses might still end up being USA Today Network papers?

 

Most likely. I like the look of the Gatehouse websites better, but I think Gannett has a more integrated system in place.

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Apologies for going off topic.

 

It seems like GateHouse/Gannett is the Sinclair or the Nexstar of the newspaper industry. Buying up whatever newspapers they can find, and destroying them.

 

I'm sorry to see GateHouse buy Gannett. Even if the Gannett newspapers were already shells of what they were pre-split.

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On 1/14/2020 at 7:12 PM, Conrad said:

Apologies for going off topic.

 

It seems like GateHouse/Gannett is the Sinclair or the Nexstar of the newspaper industry. Buying up whatever newspapers they can find, and destroying them.

 

I'm sorry to see GateHouse buy Gannett. Even if the Gannett newspapers were already shells of what they were pre-split.

 

Bumping this up-- apparently the Columbus Dispatch is becoming a UTN/Gannett paper (this despite having the former letter/number pagination scheme [C1, A10]); sooner or later, I think this one will start paginating (like all UTNs/Gannetts) as 1C and 10A.

 

https://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/?tfp_display=list&tfp_id=OH_CD

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The WBNS website looks fine on my desktop screen from what I've seen of it. I still like the old website better. Complaint: The Reds, Bengals, Browns, Indians and Cavaliers are defacto local teams of interest (and arguably the Steelers). Shouldn't they also have links on the menu? How hard is it to link to WKYC stories for Cleveland teams?

 

WKYC does include links for Ohio State Sports.

 

 

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