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Tribune paper, TV station to merge operations

Posted by Don Day on March 20, 2008

The Tribune Co. will combine its Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper operations with those of WFSL – the CW affiliate in the Miami market. Right now, WFSL does not produce its own news – but instead airs a 30 minute nightly newscast produced by WTVJ. The story in the Sun-Sentinel today has one of those “sounds great” passages:

The broadcast collaboration also is designed to broaden the Sun-Sentinel’s audience, particularly for younger viewers who favor CW programming such as One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.

The combo will have a single GM/publisher – and all operations will be based in the same building. Tribune has cross-ownership in other markets of course – notably KTLA & The Los Angeles Times – and WGN and The Chicago Tribune.

  • me

    how is that legal?

  • http://online-television-network.com kelly

    I don’t think they would be allowed to do this if it wasn’t legal.

  • http://www.fourhman.com Joe – fourhman.com

    “particularly for younger viewers who favor CW programming such as One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.”

    Well, there’s about five additional Sun readers. Ba-zing!

  • http://kwanzoo.com oakling

    wait, are they suggesting that their news broadcast is going to be changed to appeal to One Tree Hill fans? because i can’t even imagine how gruesome that might be. :)

  • discreet_chaos

    Oakling – It’d be like a dumber version of “The Daily Buzz”.