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It won't be long until the 3Q earnings and the midterm elections will reshape this massive change to local TV.

He nailed it to bring them together in one fanart! HBD to one of my Disney faves!

Remember when Sinclair just gutted their news operation in Toledo 3 years ago? Imagine if Nexstar want to retaliate Gray's takeover of American Spirit Media, it's either snatch The CW subchannel's and move to WTOL which a non-overlap marker from the Tegna merger or purchase the only remaining full power station WLMB 40 to carry Nexstar's own TV network The CW. Added the fact that Gray Media also has a LMA agreement to use their own station KOLD to operate both KMSB and KTTU. If Gray Media needs to do their major M&A deal, bigger market should be their next target.

The biggest market that Nexstar doesn't serve as a station owner is Boston, a decade ago after NBC moved from WHDH to the new WBTS meanwhile WLVI which Sunbeam bought it from Nexstar successor Tribune Media in 2006 when The CW was formed from the merger of The WB and UPN but as The CW continues to seek more live sports under Nexstar's control will Sunbeam ever gonna renew their deal and probably shift to WHDH in the near future? In case if the Tegna merger does settle in court with more divestures in many overlap markets, will Nexstar able to expand to remaining markets like Boston? Consider Sunbeam's long history being not for sale, they might look at Cox Media Group which remains up for sale which owns Fox affiliate WFXT but they get that station Fox might move their affiliation to WHDH much like their sister station WSVN thru it's main 7.1 channel. There's also WWJE 50 from both TelevisaUnivision and 2 WRNN stations WWDP 46 and WMFP 62 if they want cover all the top 10 media markets in the country. There's also Phoenix with KAZT only covered Prescott which now together Tegna sister station and NBC affiliate KPNX plus the Flagstaff semi satellite KNAZ, if KAZT was bought by Nexstar and becomes an additional signal to KPNX will they get a Phoenix duopoly with a Phoenix licensed signal either buying back KASW or purchase the Ion station KPPX from rival EW Scripps which owns the ABC affiliate KNXV plus there's also KPAZ aka a TBN O&O. In Miami following Sunbeam snatching with ABC affiliation away from WPLG last year, will Nexstar purchase the station from Berkshire Hathaway despite they have the local right to the NBA's Heat. There's also the former affiliate WSFL and it's Ion sister station WPXM from rival EW Scripps along with TBN O&O WHFT if they want to add another major Florida market. Finally there's Jacksonville, nearly 25 years after WJXT dropped CBS in 2002 they also have WCWJ which Nexstar divested in 2016 from the Media General merger. Since the Tegna merger now includes the NBC-ABC duopoly WTLV and WJXX, will Nexstar drop one of the two Big 3 affiliations to become a CW O&O with one of the Big 3 networks moving to WJXT ending a long independent station drought after a quarter of a century or will WJXT's owner Graham Media able to renew their affiliation deal with Nexstar with a potential upgrade from WCWJ to WJXT? There's still a lot of CW stations not owned by Nexstar but depending on the outcome of the Tegna merger if they make station swaps and affiliation deals to resolve those lawsuits, it might take a while to turn the network around to become a true 5th network competitor unless the make a serious bid for high profile sports rights amid the escalating cost of those rights from major sports leagues much like how Fox did in the 90's when they outbid CBS for the NFL's NFC package. Anyway happy 20th CW, wish u good luck on your next chapter.

One key major hurdle in Wellington there is the how they gonna handle a slightly shorter runway and the weather to accommodate an A330 unless it's a fifth-freedom stopover from Australia but it won't be the last time that the NZ capital tried that situation, consider Singapore Airlines with it's "Capital Express" service from Canberra to Wellington. Will Wellington able to get an Asia route again, stay tuned.

Now the PSKY-WBD merger is now almost closer to completion, that leaves Rob Bonita with the remaining merger lawsuit still in limbo between Nexstar and Tegna. But the question is will the $80B debt being reduced in the form asset sales like selling their remaining combined CW stake of 19% along with some several cable channels in exchange of their remaining 39% of Food Network and Cooking Channel plus several CBS stations. Don't be surprised if the CBS affiliate board are skeptical about the editorial independence of both CBS News and CNN.

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In July, Frontier announced it was launching eight new routes previously operated by Spirit. Three of those routes include daily service from Detroit to Fort Lauderdale, Philadelphia and Las Vegas.

“Frontier has made it known that they’re likely to pick up some additional gate capacity in Detroit, and they have already announced certain flights, some of which Spirit used to fly,” Jason Miller, chief investment officer at Grand Sakwa Properties, previously told Crain’s. “So they will probably be the airline that grows the most in Detroit relative to others.”

Frontier’s new nonstop service to New York will begin Nov. 20 with daily flights during peak holiday periods and three times per week for other periods. Prices for the flights begin at $69.

With the addition of the new LaGuardia service, Frontier will serve 15 destinations nonstop from Detroit, including 11 that were offered by Spirit before it ended its operations earlier this year.

“With this new service to New York joining the growing list of top leisure destinations offered nonstop from Detroit — including Orlando, Miami, Las Vegas, Cancún, and more — we are excited to show travelers that flying can be both low cost and high value,” Flyr said.

Last November, Frontier added six new flights at DTW, connecting Detroit to Houston, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Cancún, Charlotte, N.C., and New Orleans.

When I heard about American Idol moving from Los Angeles to Atlanta, next season might be changing from "You're going to Hollywood" to "You're going to Atlanta". Now the ultimatum of the 12 blue state lawsuit ahead of the "Ticking Fee" and midterm elections is happening but not yet. The one thing they didn't know about the choices of moving to a red state is which cities they serve that may otherwise becoming the Hollywood version of Amazon's HQ2 contest. As for the 3rd party station group's that own local CBS affiliates, well Sinclair has Austin while Nexstar bought Tegna which now have San Antonio and Houston if your thinking about Texas meanwhile Graham's WKMG Orlando and if there's an open divestiture from the Nexstar's merger with Tegna they might look at WTSP Tampa if your looking at Florida. Paramount just moved their CBS affiliation in Atlanta from Gray Media to a former independent and CW affiliate WUPA and in case of CNN the birthplace of Turner Broadcasting might be a sticking point to move CBS News from New York since they have a merger lawsuit there. Now there's Nashville, one key issue is where Scripps owns a CBS affiliate WTVF but even with it's own financial problems and cutbacks but for an NFL market in which the Titans will have a new stadium next year but if they're open to cut back on their station as we seen in both Fort Myers and Indianapolis don't be surprised if Paramount's new owner is shifting to the music city. What will Rob Bonita gonna do now, either injunction or let Paramount pay the 'Ticking Fee" to any WBD shareholder. Good luck with that.

YYC has some unexpected landings like 2 Alitalia planes (20 years later Alitalia when bankrupt during the pandemic and replaced by ITA Airways) along with the collapse of Canada 3000 less than a month later. This is a rare upload by a Youtuber named "heymannyg" which focuses on uploading news intros and pieces in both sides of the border. We'll never forget those who perished in NYC, DC and Pittsburgh 25 years ago.

It's only a matter of time before it becomes a dual branded operation with WOAI 4.

Source obtained by FTVLive reports that Meteorologist Alex Garcia and Sports Chief Chuck Miketinac were two of the big names to catch the blade. Garcia and Miketinac’s bio remains on the station’s website, so FTVLive cannot confirm the cuts.

The source also says that an Executive Producer, Producer, Production Assistants, Editor, and an Assignment Editor were laid off.

Consider this, Amazon picked up 6 local NHL teams plus a shared deal with the Seattle Kraken with the combined Nexstar-Tegna and in Canada's case meanwhile Wednesday nights plus nearly half of the Stanley Cup playoffs and 7 local French language Habs games in Quebec and the Maritimes plus Monday nights on the Sportsnet app over their own linear channels and that's on top the Toronto Raptors and Tempo on Amazon this upcoming NBA season in addition to Sportsnet and TSN. Now with the NFL season upon us, consider how the consumer public is smart enough complaining about putting more sports on a streaming paywall than our politicians both the left and the right no matter if it's an Australian game, day before Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and the usual Thursday nights. Putting the streaming wars into our sporting culture is making the media industry even worse and guess who's the main sideline in this streaming battle aka NEWS. 268 people cut off from The EW Scripps Company including cutting local anchors in small to mid-sized markets and if u head upward from Buffalo and Detroit, Corus cutting most of their Alberta staff and that was on top of almost of their local morning shows, noon and weekend newscast in both Eastern and Central Canada. Consider this as warning to all the politicians on both sides of the border, without any regulatory changes, consolidation and public backlash; putting the Super Bowl on a paywall is the last thing that people should be worried deeply. DAZN does the NFL Sunday Ticket rights in Canada and now they're the local home of the Pacers, Cavaliers, Timberwolves and Spurs instead of any available full powered independent stations. Sports bars, hotels and casinos will also get hard hit too so take Buffalo and Niagara Falls for example; an American sports fan crossing into Canada just to watch Formula 1 on TSN while Apple has the US rights same as Thursday Night Football which Canada carries on TSN, CTV and CTV2. Meanwhile a St. Catharines, Ontario hockey fan has to go to the New York side of the border to watch Wednesday night games on TNT or if you're a Buffalo Sabres fan every local game on MSG. The leagues should be ashamed on locking out sports fans and even if the streamers have global reach, there's still international broadcasters want to pick up US and international sports so if Amazon has 30 percent of the NBA and WNBA games globally, the other 70 percent that is not in-house has a lot room for any international broadcaster to pick up like RTL in Germany, M6 in France, Canal+ in several parts of Europe and Africa and Comcast owned Sky in the UK, Ireland and Italy in such cases Comcast buying ITV is not politicized instead it's about survival for international reach and scale or at least in Britain. People are smart, politicians are not so it's only matter time before it's too late.

Minus the dials in their branding after Audacy News and Sports stations are now on SIriusXM also KNX gets a new logo too.