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WNWO news production moving to WSBT

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Sinclair Broadcast Group is transferring news production for its NBC affiliate WNWO Toledo, Ohio (DMA 78), to its WSBT South Bend, Ind., “to improve both the news product and production efficiencies,” the company said today.

The company's announcement made no mention of layoffs, but the Toledo Blade reported several sources told it the move would result in some: "Station employees are learning throughout today, sources said, whether they will keep their jobs.... It is not known how many employees will be laid off," the Blade said.

It stressed that all of the local news content “will continue to be covered by local reporters and will be produced in Toledo,” but the technical aspects of the newscast will be handled by staff at Sinclair’s WSBT. The master control for WNWO by which content is readied for broadcast and commercials are inserted, will also be handled out of South Bend.
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http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/99597/wnwo-news-production-moving-to-wsbt
 
Not shocking to hear especially when there have been other issues to the station as one poster pointed out.

I would usually say this is a terrible decision, but the writing has been on the wall with WNWO; Sinclair couldn't turn it around, as did the other owners in the past. It's a cursed station that's been cursed since the days of the Overmeyer Network and it was ran out of a mobile trailer. Everyone else watches 11 and 13, and a quality NBC affiliate is available through WDIV on some cable systems and over-the-air easily. When your station is so cursed an eight-month break off the dominant local cable system to try and get some more retrans cash doesn't even get any viewer reaction, there's no hope for that news department. If this doesn't work, it won't take much for Sinclair to cash out, spectrum bait it, and sell out the NBC affiliation to 11 or 13 and move on from Toledo.
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