Friday, August 23, 2013

U.S. Justice Department seeks more on Belo deal

In a just-issued press release, Corporate says the request -- the Justice Department's second -- isn't unusual. USA Today breaks down the frequency of these DOJ requests, and their outcomes.

6 comments:

  1. I don’t know how much attention the Justice Dept pays to individual communities, but a part of the hang up could be Phoenix. In that market, Gannett owns the newspaper (the Arizona Republic) a TV station (NBC affiliate KPNX) and will be getting (if the deal goes through) two other stations, a Belo independent station (KTVK - which currently has an excellent news operation) and KASW (the CW station which doesn’t have a news operation). Gannett would end up 2 out of 5 English language TV news outlets plus the Republic.

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  2. Corporate says the request -- the Justice Department's second -- isn't unusual.......

    ........but as usual Jim is trying to make it into something. For more clicks!

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  3. Not all news is sensational. He reported that the request was made and that corporate issued a press release about it. It could be a big deal but in my opinion Jim did not make it so. All Jim did is let us know it happened.

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  4. Reporting nothing is nothing. Jim doesn't report a great deal. Why this?

    I stand by my original post Jim.

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  5. So we can piss off people like you & then read your nomsensical nonsense.

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