Byron Allen is outta the news business after screwing up highly successful stations. Just in time for his lease of CBS late night to start.
Gray has also been on a shopping spree lately: largely from smaller station groups in the midwest and southeast, plus swapping stations with Scripps.
Meanwhile, Nexstar might be buying out Tegna soon, which would potentially be another Sinclair/Tribune situation considering both groups’ sizes.
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They’re all hoping that the FCC deregulate local TV under the Toxic Tangerine.
Byron Allen really should not have gotten into broadcasting. He teamed up with Sinclair to buy the Fox Sports regional networks, and that went bankrupt.
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Diamond Sports Group (now known as Main Street Sports Group)
That’s them. The bankruptcy caused a lot of shit to happen to franchises reliant on the RSN revenue. A lot of teams have gone to DTC and OTA distribution.
Departures at Bloomberg announced last week. We also had Alix Steel leaving late last month, who was picked up by energy industry advisory firm DrivePath.
WANF announces schedule after leaving CBS. Of course it is fitting that there is a whole lot of news.
Weekdays:
- News coverage: 4.00-10.00am, Noon-1.00pm, 2.00-6.30pm, 7.00-7.30pm, 9.00-11.35pm
- 10.00am & 1.00pm: ATL Live (lifestyle show, second timeslot is new)
- 6.30pm: First Alert Weather Extra
- 11.35pm-Midnight: Sports Overtime
Weekends:
- News coverage: 8.00-10.00am, 5.00-7.30pm (7.00pm Sunday), 9.00-11.35pm
- 11.00-11.30am (Sunday), repeated at 1.00am: On the Record (political show)
- 7.00-8.00pm (Sunday), repeated at midnight: Uncovered: ANF Investigates
Atlanta is not big enough for a successful news intensive station, especially now they’ve lost CBS. They should have moved CW to 46 and sold Peachtree back to Turner/WBD.
They don’t want it.
For the record, here’s what the new shows looked like:
Having a bigger station group behind them does have an advantage in filling schedules - with lifestyle shows lifted from their sister WPCH and tapping into Gray’s Local News Live resources. Their only non-news syndication is the 1.5 hours of TBBT on primetime!
is looking into selling their broadcasting business also…
Their local news streamer NewsOn was sold to competitor Zeam not long after the news.
Sinclair could afford to shrink down a lot of its station assets. Its move into RSNs turned out to be a dud and long term, if the US changes track and doesn’t go down the path of RWNJ-led fascism, backing Trump could backfire.
Nexstar buying Tegna also feels like a bad idea too. Bigger is not always better.
This morning (US time) the transaction was announced by both companies:
Don’t know if anyone else here has seen this… USA Today have launched a breakfast show, presented from a New Jersey diner. Yes, you read that correctly. One of the hosts is former CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota. Here’s today’s show in its entirety:
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Poor Alison gosh
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If there is one thing that truly connects America, it’s greasy, fatty foods. 
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KION 46 in Monterey Bay, California, run by the News-Press & Gazette Company of Missouri, has closed it’s news department as of today. They’ll be taking KPIX News from San Francisco, which matches with their 46.2 Fox subchannel, which has taken KTVU newscasts since it was a seperate station (KCBA 35, now CW due to one of those non-license asset deals.) Here’s some of their final broadcast, which went unmentioned.
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KOTV Tulsa unveiled their new set, laregly modelled after their sister station from a year earlier. They’ve been in a temp set since June.
They kept their shots tight in the actual bulletins, though - only seen during sports or towards the end.
WCCB Charlotte’s News Edge is back, as the station disaffiliated from CW (which moved to Nexstar’s WMYT). The pop-culture chat show started back in 2002, before being ‘reimagined’ as more game show-looking Over the Edge in 2023.
Their other newscasts updated their title sequences too.
The affiliation change also occurred in Cleveland (from WUAB to WBNX, also a channel 55), Erie (WSEE to WJET) and Elmira (WENY to WETM). Gray launches a 9pm newscast on WUAB following the occasion.
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Why does a Missouri newspaper own a Monterey Bay channel?
News-Press & Gazette have owned stations outside of St. Joseph since the 70s, and in fact, all their stations (except for St. Joe and Columbia, MO) are out west, their main markets being a monopoly in Yuma AZ-El Centro, CA, near monopolies in Santa Barbara, CA, Palm Springs, CA, Idaho Falls, ID, and the radio plus TV cluster in Colorado Springs, CO. They didn’t even own a station in St. Joe untill 2012.
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Well there you go!
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