SCRIPPS NOW TAKING AIM AT GENERAL MANAGERS
The latest elimination comes in Buffalo
Category: Consolidation
COULD THE FINISH LINE BE IN SIGHT FOR STANDARD-TEGNA DEAL?
Another hurdle crossed in what has proved to be a marathon
IS A STRIKE AT THE BBC INEVITABLE? IT’S CERTAINLY UNPRECEDENTED
Anger over cuts to programming and staff about to boil over
CNN MOVES FROM ICONIC HOLLYWOOD LOCATION TO….BURBANK????
Another cost-cutting move
REALLY, IT WAS INEVITABLE…
One of the stations is a digital sub-channel of the other
TEGNA-STANDARD MEDIA DEAL HANGS ON A POTENTIALLY DEADLOCKED FCC
A 2-2 vote Commission vote would spike the agreement
GRAY CONSOLIDATES NEWSROOMS…AGAIN
A couple years back, Gray Television created “Dakota News Now” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota when it consolidated the newsrooms of KDLT and KSFY back in January 2020. Now they’ve done it again, in ...
SPEAKING OF TEGNA (STB STANDARD MEDIA)…WHAT’S THE STALL?
If you got accustomed to the FCC’s lightning-quick rubber-stamping of group mergers during the Ajit Pai years, the pace of progress in the Tegna-Standard Media deal seems glacially slow. And it just got a ...
GRAY WORKS TO KEEP THINGS SOMEWHAT STABLE
Gray Television, the new owner of KTVA in Anchorage, AL, has reportedly already hired 11 of the station’s employees to soldier on. Gray, which already owned KTUU in the market, recently picked up KTVA ...
HOW GOES THE EXPERIMENT?
Somehow we are supposed to feel very good about all of the media consolidation going on today – consolidation that we feel is a very short-term solution to local television’s problems. As for why ...
A DISTURBING TREND EMERGES
Pinky-swearing to the FCC that you will add 28 hours of news and stationing a reporter in the state capital is apparently all it takes to outright own two of the top four stations ...
FINALLY, A HURDLE CLEARED
It’s been a year in the making, but the Department of Justice has finally cleared the sale of the KDLT in Sioux Falls, SD to Gray Television. Now it’s up to the industry-friendly FCC ...
WEIGEL EXPANDS
Weigel Broadcasting has picked up its first station in Denver. Marquee Broadcasting has agreed to sell KREG for $2 million, according to an FCC filing. The station is an affiliate of Weigel’s “Heroes & ...
WAYPOINT GETS INTO THE NEWS-HUBBING BUSINESS
Independent News Network, a division of Little Rock-based Media Gateway, has been snapped up by Waypoint Media, a media management company that owns and operates 18 television stations in five states, including Arkansas. INN ...
FILLING OUT THE TEAM AT CBS
The revamped “CBS This Morning” has rolled out its new quartet of correspondents. Anna Werner, David Begnaud, Jericka Duncan, and Vladimir Duthiers, (seen behind the new morning team of Anthony Mason, Gayle King and ...
ESPN TIGHTENS THE BELT
ESPN is looking to save millions of dollars in what it pays its on-air and online sportscasters and writers, sources have told The NYPost. ESPN’s plan is simple: not renewing deals, offering lesser contracts or ...
ABC BOSS SHERWOOD IN THE SPECULATION SPOTLIGHT
It’s a given that once 21st Century Fox and Disney complete their deal and Disney takes over Fox’s entertainment assets, there will be a significant reorganization to fold all the news assets into compatibility ...
DISCOVERY SLASHES PAYROLL AT SCRIPPS INTERACTIVE
Discovery Inc. cut more jobs at the former Knoxville headquarters of Scripps Networks Interactive, which Discovery bought in March. The sign was just recently put outside the building so those who lost their jobs ...
GRAY BUYS TWO MORE IN VA.
Gray Television already owns WDBJ in Roanoke, Va. And now it is buying two more in the neighborhood to create a new duopoly. Gray is buying WFFP in Danville and WLHG in Lynchburg from ...