In my lifetime, bigger has never proved to be better. The lack of competition always results in higher prices and often less service because with no choices, where are you going to go? Gotcha!
This is surprising to me. I know that there is a limit of number of stations a single entity can own. Didn't Nexstar or Sinclair or someone need to change a merger to stay under the threshold? I do note in the article that there is a 39% rule that looks it would be going away? Very interesting indeed.
3 channels in St. Louis will be owned by the same corporation (Fox & NBC). KTVI and KPLR share the same newsroom already. I suppose KSDK will lose its independence after the merger also.
Irving, TX-based Nexstar, which owns KTVI (Channel 2) and KPLR (Channel 11), will pay $22 a share for Tegna, which owns KSDK (Channel 5), in a deal valued at $6.2 billion. The offer is 30% over the 30-day average of Tegna's closing stock price on Aug. 8.