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FTVLive unconfirmed rumors on the uncertain future of Dayton 24/7 Now

DarrenVision

DarrenVision

After we seen the news director of WKEF/WRGT left for a PIO job at a local Dayton school district: (Did This Sinclair News Director Leave? — FTVLive). The future for the Sinclair duo under Dayton 24/7 Now might be the next one to get the axe after we seen it in Buffalo, Gainesville, Toledo, Sioux CIty, Medford, Omaha, and Savannah.

From the anonymous FTVLive Reader:

Hi Scott.

With regards to the news director at WKEF leaving--could it be possible that Dayton is the next market where Sinclair eliminates the news department?

FTVLIve's Scott Jones:

Sinclair owns WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WSYX in Columbus--two of its stronger stations--while WKEF has been an afterthought for decades. Its not like Sinclair acquired a powerhouse like WKRC or took advantage of other station's misfortunes like WSYX did when WBNS-TV was sold to Tegna. WKEF has been the dog station dating back to the 1960s. It couldn't even take advantage of WHIO-TV having suffered due to Cox's cutbacks related to its sale to Apollo, or WDTN being a generic Nexstar station. What is the most notable news moment, when their weatherman ranted about a viewer complaining about The Bachelorette being pre-empted during a tornado warning?
This is actually a situation where Sinclair shutting down a news deaprtment actually makes sense. They've owned WKEF since the late 1990s. It's not like they haven't attempted to fix the problems there.

If the rumors are true it will end up with just 2 VHF rivals. Nexstar's WDTN/WBDT and Apollo-Cox's WHIO.

Don't believe me go to this link: The Next Station Sinclair Sacks News? — FTVLive
 
DarrenVision said:
After we seen the news director of WKEF/WRGT left for a PIO job at a local Dayton school district: (Did This Sinclair News Director Leave? — FTVLive). The future for the Sinclair duo under Dayton 24/7 Now might be the next one to get the axe after we seen it in Buffalo, Gainesville, Toledo, Sioux CIty, Medford, Omaha, and Savannah.

From the anonymous FTVLive Reader:

Hi Scott.

With regards to the news director at WKEF leaving--could it be possible that Dayton is the next market where Sinclair eliminates the news department?

FTVLIve's Scott Jones:

Sinclair owns WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WSYX in Columbus--two of its stronger stations--while WKEF has been an afterthought for decades. Its not like Sinclair acquired a powerhouse like WKRC or took advantage of other station's misfortunes like WSYX did when WBNS-TV was sold to Tegna. WKEF has been the dog station dating back to the 1960s. It couldn't even take advantage of WHIO-TV having suffered due to Cox's cutbacks related to its sale to Apollo, or WDTN being a generic Nexstar station. What is the most notable news moment, when their weatherman ranted about a viewer complaining about The Bachelorette being pre-empted during a tornado warning?
This is actually a situation where Sinclair shutting down a news deaprtment actually makes sense. They've owned WKEF since the late 1990s. It's not like they haven't attempted to fix the problems there.

If the rumors are true it will end up with just 2 VHF rivals. Nexstar's WDTN/WBDT and Apollo-Cox's WHIO.

Don't believe me go to this link: The Next Station Sinclair Sacks News? — FTVLive
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What does any of this have to do with all your wild sale or trade speculation? Scott at FTVLive is a good guy, but something like this is his opinion. There's a lot of his opinion on his site.
 
Kelly A said:
What does any of this have to do with all your wild sale or trade speculation? Scott at FTVLive is a good guy, but something like this is his opinion. There's a lot of his opinion on his site.
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He didnt say sale of the stations, but this is the only link I have.
 
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