[media] News Nation, aka Fox Lite, getting dimmer..

[danny burstein]

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

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[Jim Ellwanger]

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.

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> On Oct 11, 2022, at 8:04 PM, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Nexstar owns/operates about 100 tv stations, plus

[danny burstein]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022, Jim Ellwanger wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

fwiw, I kicked a note to Robert Feder [a], the News and
Media Maven of Chicago [retired], asking if he had
any ideas. I'll forward any reply around.

[a] NTBCW Richard Feder of Fort Lee, NJ.

[Doug Elrod]

This morning, during WNN, there was a crawl, partially covering up the WNN crawl, about my local _ABC AFFILIATE_ being dropped from Verizon FIOS.
I guess it's a good reason not to be on Verizon FIOS :-).

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
  (Apologies if you happen to be on Verizon FIOS)