I’m sure it’s a situation where they’ll end up negotiating with Verizon for lower carriage fees for Nexstar’s local TV stations in exchange for them continuing to carry NewsNation.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 11, 2022, at 8:04 PM, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nexstar owns/operates about 100 tv stations, plus > lots of thises and thatses. > > Their flagship station is WGN in Chicago, and they've > got WPIX in NYC. > > A couple of years ago they announced another attempt > to re-create a CNN by having a central studio or two > in Chicago (and wherever Dan Abrams is coming from) > and handing over the camera to whatver neighborhoodr > the local reporter was in. > > Note they're ONLY cable/satellite, with no > "over the air" carriage. > > Kind of a good idea, but tv news graveyards are > filled with these.... > > But yeah, we were rooting for them. > > Alas, while they claim to be unbiased and an > objective alternative to the others, etc., etc. > > Eyup. Fox Light. (Check out their hiring > of... Bill Shine [a]) > > Oh, and in what, I dunno, the only reason I can > even pretend to understand why is.. money laundering... > they just hired and are promo'ing Chris Cuomo. > > Sigh. > > Anyway, it looks like they're about to face some > super heavy finance crash issues. > > They've been flashing alerts on the screen calling > out for us to "wire Congress!"... well, actually > it's "Call Verizon" which, apparently, is threatening > to kick them off the FIOS feeds. > > No doubt it's a finance issue as to how much money > Verizon would pay for the programming or... any > of the other crazy quilt of back and forths in regard > to money transfers, but it's looking pretty iffy. > > There's very little customer demand for News Nation.. > > [a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shine > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/62EB2D1C-A313-4288-AC2D-8409B26FF92F%40ellwanger.tv.
