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In St. Louis, Sinclair's merger could make things interesting in a few years

Jonathan7157

Jonathan7157

I am saying things could get interesting in St. Louis from this merger, because Tribune owns KPLR and KTVI and Sinclair owns KDNL. However, they have to sell 1 station due to limits.

I, personally don't like this merger, but because it's for political reasons, I won't say anything more than that.

If they had to sell 1 station, it would be KTVI, because yes, it's the more successful of the bunch, and Sinclair could use KPLR as an opportunity for an affiliation switch in 2020, when KDNL's contract with ABC ends. However, who knows who will buy KTVI, whether it's Cox, Scripps, Nexstar, or someone else.

The affiliation switch could work like this, KPLR becomes ABC (still be KPLR 11, but as an ABC affiliate) and KDNL becomes CW 30. However, it's only possible if Sinclair sells KTVI.
 
Raycom, Gray, Hearst would have to fight over KTVI though if that happens though. Nexstar is off the list because they are in the running for Tegna Stations though

Also KTVI 2 could lose their Fox affiliation because of the Sinclair deal due to the Fox ion affiliation deal along with KTXL Sacramento and KCPQ Seattle.
 
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Or, Sinclair could "create" a company to own one of the stations and operate it by LMA. In Nashville Sinclair owns WZTV (FOX) and WUXP (MyTV) and operates WNAB (CW).
 
Well I mentioned this on other threads though that Fox affiliates owned by Sinclair could lose their Fox affiliation and become the new flagship stations of the rumored "New Sinclair Network". Most notably as many articles have cited that speculation over Mark Hyman and Boris Epstyen could get primetime slots that originally had been used by Fox. KTVI might either have to be sold off to others to keep the Fox affiliation or Ion takes over KTVI though.
 
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