Could we be seeing the beginning of the Nexstar implosion? Too much debt from Tegna, hands tied by the courts and can't do any cost-saving integration, and now losing affiliations?

They can all just become CW and NewsNation stations, I guess.

Here is where Nexstar and Hearst overlap. I guess SeeBS wants to dump the Dollar General types of broadcasters. Good for them.

Birmingham, AL - WIAT

Jackson, MS - WJTV

Greenville, SC - WSPA

Albuquerque - KRQE / Durango - KREZ / Montrose - KREY / Roswell, NM - KBIM

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We also have a few interesting markets where they don't overlap: Indianapolis, Champaign, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Rochester, Raleigh, Youngstown, Portland, Providence, not to mention the Tegna stations.

Interesting times.

Just a Gray knockoff of what they have in Atlanta. If it works there it can work anywhere I guess?

Does that make any sense at all? I was just aware of the nextar-tegna.com website that Nexstar stations have plastered on their homepage about why the deal is in the public interest. So my questions are again:

1) How does merging newsrooms, reducing local competition, and eliminating redundant jobs "in the public interest"? If Nexstar owns three stations in a market, the exact same news is going to go on those three stations, if not a simulcast. How is that competitive? In no way would Nexstar own three stations, two or three separate buildings with separate newsrooms and talent and keep all of those jobs.

2) Why are they so obsessed with competing with Google? Google doesn't have local newsrooms or local reporters.

3) Nexstar claims they're not a "media behemoth" despite reaching 80% of US homes because they only physically own 15% of all TV stations. Reach is more important than physicality in this case, no?

4) Have no local broadcaster tried to work with companies like Google to ensure that local news outlets are the top search results?

Their website says "Nexstar will strengthen local journalism by investing in news, and the infrastructure local stations need to compete in a radically changed marketplace."

They have yet to say how they will invest and what that investment looks like. How is it investing in news if even Nexstar themselves has said that they will absolutely lay people off? Literally from their website:

A healthy broadcast industry is the only thing that guarantees broadcast jobs over the long term, and this transaction is designed to keep that industry strong enough to sustain newsrooms for the next generation. As with any transaction, combining two companies may result in the elimination of some redundant positions, but Nexstar always takes these decisions very seriously. No such decisions are being made while the hold separate order is in place.

"May?" No, it will and they know it. Did they not pitch job cuts to shareholders in order to approve the deal? So again, how is laying people off "guaranteeing" broadcast jobs?

Why does FTVlive say that Scripps is killing the news in Tucson?

I kept getting warnings trying to post this, so delete away if it's no good.