Jayne spends more time out of the office Han actually supervising her team. After returning from the Master’s and posting photos of her and her husband day drinking while using her media credentials… her next big to do was spend time at the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame, inducting Carolyn Cliffor...

You know it’s bad when Saturday Night Live equates your national “news” network with a Beavis and Butthead skit… https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/14/news-nation-get-the-snl-treatment Nexstar is throwing a lot of money and has very little to show for it. They are making their local stations s...

Do ornery WOOD and Fox 17 Assistant News Director Andy Gillfillan wrote a LinkedIn post about the challenges he’s faced getting back into the industry after caring for his mom. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/14/burning-the-tegna-scripps-bridge Andy takes a shot at Tegna and Scripps recruit...

More Nexstar stations are unionizing as a way to fight back against Uncle Perry and his penchant for running stations on the cheap. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/15/another-nexstar-station-votes-to-unionize WLNS has long resisted any unionization effort, but there are many people who are ...

I thought only Sinclair hired the worst people… now I see Chris Hansen on News Nation.

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/ ... ews-nation

Whoever is running this trainwreck of a “news” operation is in a race toward irrelevancy.

Blind squirrels can find nuts. Doesn’t make them a real news organization, Steve. Fox 47 has always been dead last in the market, they remain in dead last place today, they will stay in dead last place in the future — as long as Scripps and its horrible Scrippscast remains in place. Gary, Matt, Neil...

Persons of color need not apply to be a News manager in Sinclair. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/15/notice-anything This came from a post from the Regional News Director who was the “brains” behind WEYI’s “Mid-Michigan Not NOW!” rebranding and mass layoffs. Now that he’s done decimating ou...

Sinclair only owns WSMH. They are operating WEYI through a shared services agreement with Armstrong Williams’ Howard Stirk Holdings. They run WBSF through Cunningham. All sidecar deals to avoid running into FCC ownership cap issues. However, the FCC has been cracking down these end arounds with laws...

Kager: I invest my money in businesses with future growth opportunities. That is not local TV until all the corporate consultants and bean counters are let go.

And you can expect GM Ken to continue to back her… even as everyone not in Jayne’s inner circle flees. Ken is as big of a problem as Jayne.

Or… hire more journalists and pay them a living wage.

AI rewrites don’t solve the problem of not having real coverage of local issues.

How is Nexstar doing this? I thought they were at the ownership cap — and the FCC was making them divest stations like WPIX in New York City?

I believe it’s located in the Farmington Hills area.

https://sports.newsnetmedia.com/

Let’s see how well your predictions turn out. Look at what CBS is doing nationally. If you really think this is about launching a fourth national weather network to compete with the Weather Channel — with the same dismal results as Fox Weather and WeatherNation, then I have an ugly DETROIT sign to s...

Agreed, but it’s a slippery slope that will lead to bad places for Sinclair stations