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Apollo, Standard General make $8 billion bid for Tegna

DarrenVision said:
One other conflict there is Allen competes with Tegna in both Huntsville and Tucson will there gonna be swaps because Tegna has Fox stations in their markets
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They could get around that by moving the Fox affiliation to co-owned KTTU 18 & make it the primary with MyNet as secondary & sell KMSB 11 to Nexstar (With KOLD 13 continuing to produce newscasts for the station) & move the CW affiliation from KWBA 58, leaving Scripps to make it the Ion affiliate for the area

No problem
 
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JeeperOne said:
They could get around that by moving the Fox affiliation to co-owned KTTU 18 & make it the primary with MyNet as secondary & sell KMSB 11 to Scripps, who could move The CW there (With KOLD 13 continuing to produce newscasts for the station if they want) & free up KWBA 58 to be the Ion affiliate for the area

No problem
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Scripps has ABC station KGUN9 but a sale to Sinclair or Hearst or a smaller group might work. Same as Fox 54 Huntsville
 
DarrenVision said:
Scripps has ABC station KGUN9 but a sale to Sinclair or Hearst or a smaller group might work. Same as Fox 54 Huntsville
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Scripps would NEVER sell ANYTHING (Let alone the KGUN/KWBA duo) to Sinclair. Not when they don't have to (See my edit)
 
JeeperOne said:
Or Warren Buffet's Graham Media Group as both could swallow Tegna like taking a GIANT asprin
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They could, but there's no money in local tv. I can't see him as a buyer...unless they can "pick and choose" specific stations.
 
upstate29651 said:
Based on what? The last thing anyone needs is for that race baiter to buy more stations.
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Byron was in a bidding war with Standard General which is why I think Byron Allen may buy TEGNA. I agree that Byron is a race-baiter and I hope he losses the McDonald's lawsuit and gets thrown out.
 
DarrenVision said:
what happens to Standard Media stations being sold to Cox Apollo
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That ain't happening. Personally, I would've redone that deal considering what the deal entailed in Texas as it didn't have TEGNA's station in San Antonio, KENS, alongside the other major TEGNA-owned Texas stations. I'd think going forward, we'll see small pieces of TEGNA being sold if they're really in desperate financial straits & really wanting to do something.
 
NYCsporty said:
That ain't happening. Personally, I would've redone that deal considering what the deal entailed in Texas as it didn't have TEGNA's station in San Antonio, KENS, alongside the other major TEGNA-owned Texas stations. I'd think going forward, we'll see small pieces of TEGNA being sold if they're really in desperate financial straits & really wanting to do something.
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KENS was not part of the Cox sale unlike WFAA, KHOU, and KVUE. All four Texas biggest markets were once part BELO
 
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