TEGNA is no more and is now a part of Nexstar Media.

 BREAKING NEWS  

TEGNA Is now a part of Nexstar Media Group, the transaction was approved by the FCC & the DOJ this afternoon.  This means as of now 9NEWS & Channel 20 are owned by Nexstar, the owners of FOX31 & Colorado's Own Channel 2.  

When will we see any changes on air we don't know yet, it should be fairly quick though.    

And will a pending lawsuit by the state of Colorado and other states +  DirecTV even matter?  

If this is allowed to stand, Nexstar would control programing & news content in 80% of the country.  

 

Nexstar would own:60 NBC Stations, 37 ABC Stations, 50 CBS Stations, 39 My Network TV Stations, 68 CW Stations & 58 FOX Stations.    

Now Nexstar has said they will divest the following stations, although we don't know when, that could take 2years according to F.C.C Documents and to whom (That could possibly be a Nexstar side car company IE:Mission Broadcasting, Inc). 

• KTVD 
• WTHR
• WAVY
• WUPL
• KNWA
• WCTX 

In total they would own 306 local stations across the country and in most cases the newsrooms will be combined leading to massive job losses in the coming year.

 

  

 

 

 

    

 

 

Lauren Scafidi is leaving 9NEWS & Channel 20 Sunday March 8th.

9NEWS Anchor & Reporter Lauren Scafidi is leaving KUSA & KTVD, her final news cast will be Sunday Morning, she has been with the Denver duopoly since Labor Day weekend of 2023.  She is leaving Denver for a new opportunity, we will find out on Sunday and update this post at that time.

9NEWS is continuing to add newscasts.

Beginning Monday 9NEWS @ NOON expands to an entire hour, the first 30 mins on NBC & the last 30 mins on KTVD/My Network TV.   Also starting Monday 9NEWS@5 expands to an hour the first 30 mins on NBC & the last 30mins on KTVD/My Network TV. 

NBC Nightly News will remain at 5:30PM on KUSA.

This is the first time 9NEWS@5 has been an hour long since late summer of 1992 when they were still an ABC station, World News Tonight was shown at 6PM back then, because the 5PM news was a full hour, with a 4:30PM Newscast. 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

KMGH / KCDO has let go of 3 mangaers in the last week.

According to a memo that has been leaked on line, 3 managers have been let go from the Denver ABC affiliate.   

Could this be part of a broader restructuring at Scripps? That remains to be seen, although Scripps is trying to off load several stations as of late--WFTX FOX4 in Ft. Myers/Naples & WRTV 6 in Indianapolis are waiting for paperwork to go through & get govt approval.. 

Here is the memo: https://files.constantcontact.com/143c1a10201/92f5a1f0-5fe8-40be-a654-3a00bd8698c0.pdf?rdr=true