Journal Purchases KM3

Hal Dawg · Post by **Hal Dawg** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:49 am

Aug. 22 -- Emmis Communications Corporation announced it has signed definitive agreements to sell nine of its 16 television stations in three separate transactions.

Journal Communications ("Journal Broadcast Group") has signed an agreement to purchase KMTV-TV in Omaha, WFTX-TV (Ch. 4, Fox affiliate) and KGUN-TV (Ch. 9, ABC affiliate) in Tucson, Ariz. The sale price for the three stations is $235 million.

Gray Television, which owns WOWT, has signed an agreement to purchase WSAZ-TV (Ch. 3, NBC affiliate) in Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia, for $186 million.

LIN TV Corp has signed an agreement to purchase WALA-TV (Ch. 10, Fox affiliate) and WBPG-TV (Ch. 55, WB affiliate) in Mobile, Ala./Pensacola, Fla.; WTHI-TV (Ch. 10, CBS affiliate) in Terre Haute, Ind.; WLUK-TV (Ch. 11, Fox affiliate) in Green Bay, Wis.; and KRQE-TV (Ch. 13, CBS affiliate) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, plus regional satellite stations. The sale price for the five stations is $260 million.

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:54 pm

So Travis Justice will stay on the T&T show, and as a way to spice up the ratings, Todd and Tyler will be doing the new sports segment on the 10pm news.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:23 pm

they should just fire travis justice, the dudes a moron.

Post by **nebugeater** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:49 pm

Twiztid1 wrote:I like Travis. I think he's the most objective reporter in omaha.

Just how could this be known? When has he ever "reported" anything?

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:04 pm

the guy is in no way a reporter. He is a jackass that takes certain sides of issues just to get people mad and try and boost his ratings. And on top of that hes extremely annoying.

Post by **Omaha Cowboy** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:04 am

C'mon guys..

Before that, they guy was a 'trivia genius'..

Don't you remember 'Travia'

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..Ciao..LiO....Peace

Post by **nebugeater** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:18 am

Twiztid1 wrote:
the guy is in no way a reporter. He is a jackass that takes certain sides of issues just to get people mad and try and boost his ratings. And on top of that hes extremely annoying.
Travis actually has an opinion and doesn't use it to just boost his ratings through anger. A lot of times he talks about his subject and opinion on todd n tyler before he records it. I'd much rather listen to trav than any other reporter in town. He doesn't suck up to the huskers.

It is OK to listen to him. The key is OPINION. Just don't use Travis and Reporter in the same sentance and you will be OK. You yourself used Opinion in describing his style and that is not what a reporter does, or shouldn't anyway.

eomaha · Post by **eomaha** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:54 am

Their new boss may decide to make him go sit down back at the sports desk.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:31 am

Yeah, you have to lump Justice in with the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, and Maher. There's a huge difference between "commentator" and "reporter".

He's still a moron, though.

-Big E

UNOstudent · Post by **UNOstudent** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:50 pm

maybe w/ the new owners cbs will broadcast in HD on cox cable.

lpgforms · Post by **lpgforms** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:18 pm

Travis Justice has gone as far as he can in local broadcasting - He is getting too old to move on to anything outside of Omaha as well. Without Todd and Tyler in his corner, he'd be selling insurance by now.

Brain

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:45 pm

UNOstudent: I was thinking/hoping the same thing. What a bunch of wieners trying to charge Cox for their HD signal. I watch shows on HD channels simply because they're in HD, sometimes even when they are cruddy shows. DiscoveryHD has pretty much taken over as TV Channel King at my house.

-Big E

Hal Dawg · Post by **Hal Dawg** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:24 am

As far as I know, KM3's ratings have yet to go up at all since Travis came over there from Fox 42.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:25 pm

As of Monday 12/5/2005 Journal Broadcast Group has taken over KM3

Travis Justice's "For Whats its Worth" Gone.

Starting next Monday

Travis Justice "Sports Director" again

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:13 am

Haha

For what its worth, you got own3d, biatch!

lol, tun4 r0x0r

Post by **Brad** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:16 am

For What its worth

Why does everyone hate Trav?

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:36 am

I don't like him because he's an idiot, AND he was using the facade of a "reporter" to spout opinion over the news. I don't like him for the same reason I don't like everyone else like him, conservative or liberal.

-Big E

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:10 am

^And that's why he was fired. Yay!

Post by **Brad** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:51 am

He wasn't fired, just going back to sports, what he is really good at!

Second of all, you have to give 3 credit for trying something new with "For What its Worth".

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:02 am

What was new about it?

-Big E

adam186 · Post by **adam186** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:56 am

Brad wrote:He wasn't fired, just going back to sports, what he is really good at!

Second of all, you have to give 3 credit for trying something new with "For What its Worth".

Oops!

Misread your earlier post.

I don't like Trav on "For What It's Worth" because I honestly think he did it to upset people off and cause controversy where there is none to get more viewers. A desperate move on KM3's part. Oh, and the show was worth absolutely nothing. I do like him on Todd & Tyler though.

Post by **Brad** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:21 am

What was new about it?

3,6,7
news,weather,sports

It broke away from the normal newscast

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:35 am

Why does everyone hate Trav?

Not that I Hated him, I just never felt like he had the credibility to lash out on social issues.

From Sportscaster to Michael Moore type commentary? I just never bought it. Essentially; right idea, wrong person.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:37 am

It's more of Bill O'Reily type of commentating. You can't tell where the news ends and the news commentary starts.

You always know with Michael Moore that it's just news commentary.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:37 am

Gotcha. It was new to local Omaha newscasts. I thought you were implying that it was new in a "Mickey Rooney has been doing it for 80 years" kind of way.

Speaking of crappy local newscasts, did anyone notice Channel 6 devoting TWO (that I saw) segments (on two nights) to some lady who lost part of her stupid snow village decorations to an eBay broker in town? No wonder a traffic jam made front page news for three days here.

I vote to start a thread documenting all of the bandwidth and ink local media wastes pandering to idiots.

-Big E

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:38 am

Swift wrote:It's more of Bill O'Reily type of commentating. You can't tell where the news ends and the news commentary starts.

It's when he makes noise with his mouth.

-Big E

OmahaRules · Post by **OmahaRules** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:29 pm

I liked Travis' For What its Worth when he tackled city issues such as the light rail idea etc. But when it got political or something like abortion I didn't care about it. I think Trav is good at what he does. He seems decently smart when he talks so its better than most people on T.V.

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