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WIVB-TV
CityBuffalo, New York
Channels
BrandingWIVB 4;News 4
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WNLO
History
First air date
May 14, 1948
(76 years ago)(1948-05-14)
Former call signs
WBEN-TV (1948–1977)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:4 (VHF,1948–2009)
  • Digital:39 (UHF, until 2018), 32 (UHF, 2018–2019)
  • NBC(primary 1948–1949, secondary 1949–1954)
  • DuMont(secondary, 1948–1955)
  • ABC(secondary, 1948–1956)
  • United(secondary, 1967)[3][4]
Call signmeaning
"IV" (Roman numeral4) "Buffalo"
Technical information[5]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID7780
ERP800 kW
HAAT415 m (1,362 ft)
Transmitter coordinates42°39′33″N78°37′32″W/ 42.65917°N 78.62556°W/42.65917; -78.62556
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wivb

WIVB-TV(channel 4) is atelevision stationinBuffalo, New York,United States, affiliated withCBS.It is owned byNexstar Media GroupalongsideCWowned-and-operated stationWNLO(channel 23). WIVB-TV and WNLO share studios on Elmwood Avenue inNorth Buffalo;through achannel sharing agreement,the two stations transmit using WNLO's spectrum from atowerinColden, New York.

History[edit]

An early WBEN-TV identification card.

The station first signed on the air on May 14, 1948, as WBEN-TV.[6]It was Buffalo's first television station, and the fifth-oldest station in New York state. The station was originally owned by the Butler family, along with theBuffalo Evening Newsand WBEN radio (930 AMand 106.5 FM, nowWBKVat 102.5); the holding company for the WBEN stations was WBEN, Inc.[7]Its radio sister had been one ofCBS Radio's first 16 affiliates when that network premiered in 1928, but by that point had switched networks toNBC Blue.Accordingly, channel 4 originally signed on as anNBCtelevision affiliate, and with it airedThe Howdy Doody Show,a show hosted by local nativeBob Smith,who had spent the past few years at WBEN radio before departing for national television. WBEN-TV picked up CBS programming in January 1949,[8]and has remained with that network ever since.

As the only station in Buffalo for its first several years, channel 4 also carried secondary affiliations withABCandDuMont.It lost NBC when WGR-TV (channel 2, nowWGRZ) signed on in August 1954, and ABC to WGR-TV when NBC moved its programs to newly purchasedWBUF-TV(channel 17) in 1956. WBEN-TV continued to share DuMont programming with WGR-TV until 1956 when that network ceased operations. It operated from studios on the 18th floor of the Statler Hotel until 1960, when it moved to its current facilities on Elmwood Avenue. That studio—expanded by the WBEN stations—had originally been built for WBUF-TV, which had gone dark in 1958, two months before the sign-on of present-day ABC affiliateWKBW-TV(channel 7).

One early show running from the late 1940s until 1970 wasMeet the Millers,a weekday afternoon series featuring Bill and Mildred Miller providing cooking and household tips. Two educational local shows aimed toward children were the hour-longFun to Learnconsisting of 15-minute segments which taught various subjects including thelanguage of Spanishat 5 p.m. weekdays and the half-hourYour Museum of Science,which featured the curator of theBuffalo Museum of Scienceon Saturday mornings. Another staple throughout the 1950s and early 1960s was a short visit to the North Pole withSanta Clausand Forgetful theElf.This was a daily show that aired only during December and was sponsored by Hengerer's Department Store. On September 23, 1977, the then-newly-renamed WIVB took over production of thepublic-accesscable television programDisco Step by Step.In April 1976, the station signed a sister station agreement withHokuriku Broadcastingfrom Kanazawa in central Japan.[9]: 260-262 

When theFederal Communications Commission(FCC) disallowed same marketco-ownership of newspapers and broadcast licensesin the early 1970s, the combination of theBuffalo Evening Newsand WBEN-AM-FM-TV wasgrandfatheredunder the new rule. However, the 1974 death of Katherine Butler (longtime owner and publisher of theEvening News) led to the placement of theEvening News'properties in a blind trust (since Butler left no heirs). This trust company then sold the newspaper to its current owner,Berkshire Hathawayin 1977. This sale brought an end to 101 years of Butler family ownership of theEvening News.With the loss of the WBEN stations' grandfathered protection, Berkshire Hathaway opted to keep the newspaper and sell off the broadcasting properties. WBEN-TV was sold to newspaper publisher Robert Howard ofOceanside, California,for $25.5 million. The new owner, whose company was called Howard Publications, Inc., changed channel 4's callsign to WIVB-TV, which stands for "We're Channel IV (Roman numeral4) Buffalo ", on November 1, 1977, the day after he purchased the station.[10]The call-letter change was triggered due to an FCC regulation at the time prohibiting TV and radio stations in the same city, but with different owners, from sharing the same call letters.[11]The WBEN callsign remains on 930 AM, which along with its FM sister station had been sold to Larry Levite's Algonquin Broadcasting (both of those stations are currently owned byAudacy). Channel 4 was then sold toKing World Productions(at that time a separate entity from bothViacomand CBS; the two would later split and remerge) for $100 million in 1988.[12][13]

In the late 1970s, WBEN/WIVB ended up playing an early role in the emerging cable television industry. Their satellite uplink facility, initiated by general manager Les Arries in 1976, uplinked sporting events for worldwide distribution, and was used to transmit American TV programming into Canada until Canadian authorities put an end to this practice.Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainmentthen began leasing the uplink facility to transmit the signals of their then-new cable networksNickelodeonandThe Movie Channel(originally known as Star Channel). Both networks moved to an uplink facility inHauppauge, New York,by the end of 1981, after Warner-Amex was unable to reach a deal with WIVB's ownership over a planned expansion of the facility to handle uplinking and studio programming for their new music video channelMTV.[14]

WIVB-TV nearly dropped its CBS affiliation and became an NBC affiliate in1994,when King World put itself up for sale (NBC parent companyGeneral Electric's announced purchase of the company never materialized). After attempts byWestinghouse Broadcasting(whoseparent companywould later purchase CBS),New World Communications(to make the station aFoxaffiliate),Tribune Broadcasting(to make a station aWBaffiliate),Paramount Stations Group(to make a station aUPNaffiliate), andE. W. Scripps Company(to make the station an ABC affiliate), to purchase the station fell through,[citation needed]WIVB-TV was sold to LIN TV Corporation (which would later take the nameLIN Media) in 1995;[15][16][17]King World was acquired by CBS in 2000 and has since been absorbed intoParamount Global'sCBS Media Venturesunit, while E. W. Scripps would later acquire rival WKBW in 2014 and, ironically, WIVB's current parent Nexstar would later acquire Tribune in 2019. The new owner renewed the station's CBS affiliation through a long-term contract; it was renewed in 2014, along with most of the rest of the contracts for LIN's CBS affiliates, and will expire at an unknown date.[18]As a result of the cancellation of the deal, Buffalo was one of the fewNFLmarkets that was not affected by the affiliation switches. At the time of the aborted NBC purchase, WIVB-TV's viewership was in a strong second place in the local ratings, while NBC's existing affiliate WGRZ-TV was in third place, although not as distant as it had been throughout much of the 1980s and early 1990s. Both stations have since passed then-first-place WKBW-TV.

WIVB-TV gained the local rights to theBuffalo Billsfrom WGRZ-TV in1998,when theAmerican Football Conferencepackage moved toCBS.WGRZ-TV had aired most Bills games since 1965.Van Miller,channel 4's longtime sports director, was the Bills' play-by-play announcer from 1960 to 2003, except for a brief time in the 1970s whenWKBWradio was the flagship. However, beginning in 2014 with the introduction of "cross-flex" scheduling, the NFL started arbitrarily moving select Bills games toWUTV,the localFoxaffiliate.[19]

In 2000, LIN bought the station then known as WNEQ-TV, the market's secondaryPBSmember station.[20]On January 23, 2001, WNEQ-TV was relaunched asindependent stationWNLO; that station became a UPN affiliate in 2002. The previous UPN stations, WNGS/WONS, later switched to theRetro Television Networkand were eventually sold to theDaystar Television Network(Daystar has since sold WNGS, which today serves as Buffalo'sMeTVandThis TVaffiliate under new call lettersWBBZ-TV). In September 2006, WNLO became Buffalo's CW affiliate. On May 18, 2007, LIN announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could have resulted in the sale of the company; such a sale would not materialize until March 21, 2014, when it announced a merger withMedia General.[21]The merger was completed on December 19, bringing WIVB-TV and WNLO under common ownership with ABC affiliateWTENand the same management as Fox affiliateWXXA-TVinAlbany;[22]because Media General is part-owned byWarren Buffett,the merger also brought WIVB back under co-ownership withThe Buffalo News,as Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns that newspaper, and the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban has since been lifted. The two entities remain operated separately. Media General later merged with Nexstar Broadcasting Group to formNexstar Media Group.

Programming[edit]

WIVB-TV currently airs no local non-news programming, except for thepublic affairsprogramBy the People,which has been a staple of its programming on Sundays at 6 a.m. for many decades.

Under LIN ownership, WIVB (and LIN's other CBS affiliates in markets where the company owned a station duopoly) did not broadcastCBS Saturday Morningnor (in most cases) the weekend editions of theCBS Evening News,broadcasting extended hour-long local evening newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays instead. Sister station WNLO aired the weekend editions of theCBS Evening News,but, unlike most LIN duopoly stations in this scenario, did not carryCBS This Morning Saturdayas it is committed to The CW's Saturday morning block (currentlyOne Magnificent Morning). As an exception, ifCBS Sportsprogramming ran into the 6:30 p.m. half-hour on weekends, local news would air from 6 to 7 on WNLO, and the abbreviated network newscast, if any, might air on WIVB-TV.

In fall 2015, WIVB, now under Media General ownership, began to consistently carry bothCBS This Morning Saturdayand the weekend editions of theCBS Evening News.

On the numerous occasions that CBS' coverage of the men's final of theUS Opentennis tournament was pushed back from Sunday to Monday afternoon (and occasionally other sports coverage held over to weekdays), WIVB-TV delegated this coverage to WNLO to air its regular local and syndicated programming. If necessary due to the length of the match, WIVB-TV simulcasted coverage during the usualCBS Evening Newstimeslot and took over coverage fully once WNLO began airing CW programming at 8 pm. The station did carry the final in full in2013,when it was scheduled for Monday instead of Sunday from the outset. This arrangement ended in 2015 whenESPNbecame the exclusive carrier of the tournament.

As part of the team's new regional media deal with Nexstar, Buffalo Bills preseason broadcasts moved to WIVB in 2021 (the move was originally scheduled for 2020 before the NFL canceled its 2020 preseason due toCOVID-19 concerns). The contract took effect across Nexstar's other stations in the Bills' market in 2018.[23]

News operation[edit]

WIVB-TV presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and3+1⁄2hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces an additional18+1⁄2hours of newscasts weekly for WNLO (with3+1⁄2hours on weekdays, and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). This totals55+1⁄2hours of newscasts on a weekly basis between the two stations; in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in the Buffalo market (in contrast, WGRZ produces30+1⁄2hours and WKBW-TV produces24+1⁄2hours of newscasts each week).

Appropriately for a station with roots in a newspaper, WIVB-TV has a strong news tradition. WBEN-TV was the early news leader in Buffalo until approximately 1972, when (briefly) WGR-TV and then (more long-term) WKBW-TV overtook it. Channel 4 then spent most of the next 30 years as a solid, if usually distant, runner-up to WKBW-TV, well ahead of market laggard WGR-TV (later WGRZ). However, it was a major beneficiary of various changes (including WKBW-TV changing hands to a smaller company, aging of its news team, and general programming mistakes) at WKBW-TV in the mid-1990s. Most notably, it snagged local rights toThe Oprah Winfrey Showfrom WKBW-TV in 1995.[24]By 2000, after the retirement of WKBW-TV's longtime anchormanIrv Weinsteinand weather anchorTom Jolls– the last of the traditional "Irv,Rickand Tom "team at channel 7 – and Nielsen's adoption of market metering in Buffalo at the same time, WIVB-TV had taken over the number-one spot for the first time in over a quarter century. It remained number one for the next decade until a series of budget cuts, a retransmission consent dispute with Time Warner Cable,[25]and the slow response to replace departing news anchors pushed most of its newscasts to second, behind WGRZ, who has since also come under ownership of a major national media company. By 2013, WIVB-TV, despite producing the most hours of news content, had the smallest news staff of any of the three stations in the market, after WKBW-TV went on a hiring spree to boost its staff.

WIVB has long been considered to favor older viewers, even dating back to the 1970s when its rivals were promoting flashier, more sensational approaches to the news. Jacquie Walker, the station's lead co-anchor, has been with the station since 1984, the longest continuous run of any news anchor in the history of Buffalo television.[26]Walker announced her retirement from the anchor desk in April 2024 as she moves into a senior correspondent role[27]previously held by her former co-anchor Rich Newberg.[28]The station frequently places significant emphasis on its weather operation. Don Paul spent nearly 30 years as WIVB's chief meteorologist before he was pushed into retirement in 2016; after a stint at WKBW, Nexstar reversed its decision and invited Paul back in a part-time position.[29]The station's current chief meteorologist is Todd Santos, a former personality onThe Weather ChannelandNBC Weather Plus;another prominent meteorologist on the staff is Mike Cejka, who has been with WIVB since 1983. The station has also typically differed in its approach to hiring meteorologists in that none of them are Western New York natives (whereas WKBW and WGRZ hired mostly local personalities); Kaylee Wendt, the last meteorologist to have lived in western New York before arriving at WIVB, left the station in February 2019.

The news operation at WIVB-TV has historically favored a straight newscast, as opposed to the more activist approach of WGRZ (WIVB-TV highlighted this in an advertising campaign in the mid-2000s, when it used the slogan "today's news and tomorrow's weather" and asserted that it "doesn't take sides," a reference to WGRZ's use of the "On Your Side" slogan).

Since 1993, the station has produced an annual holiday promo featuring a custom version of Jolly Demis's "Christmas Time Again". The promos, featuring short snippets of the families of each member of the WIVB news team, have become a tradition in Western New York, long after most other stations discontinued using the song (only WIVB andKSAZ-TVinPhoenix, Arizona,still use it).[30]

This station debuted a weekday morning newscast on September 19, 1994, known asWake Up!.It was the second local broadcast in the market after WKBW-TV'sGood Morning Western New York,which launched in 1987. Unlike the WKBW-TV broadcast, which was (and remains) a weekday-only program,Wake Up!has aired seven days a week from its inception, with a two-hour version (originally only one hour from 1994 to January 2013) airing on Saturdays and Sundays. (The weekend edition was originally co-anchored by Chuck Gurney, the first openly gay television personality in the Buffalo market.)[31]During the mid-1990s, WIVB-TV used the 24 Hour News Source format, which had previously been used earlier in the decade on WGRZ-TV. In March 2001, WIVB-TV began airing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO known asThe 10 O'Clock News.During the week, this program competes with WGRZ-TV's prime time newscast that currently airs on Fox affiliate WUTV (and previously ran onWPXJ-TVandWNYO-TV); WNLO has led the ratings race at 10 p.m. ever since the program's debut.

Starting on February 2, 2009, WNLO began airing a two-hour extension of WIVB-TV's weekday morning newscast. It has since cut the extended morning show by an hour to make room for a partially brokered local talk show. It also rebroadcasts WIVB-TV's weekend morning newscast and may air the hour-long weekend 6 p.m. newscasts which normally air on WIVB-TV, if CBS Sports programming runs over into the timeslot.

WIVB-TV began broadcasting its newscasts in truehigh definitionon February 1, 2012.[32]It was the last of the television stations in the Buffalo market to upgrade its news programming to HD; WKBW-TV had done so in 2011, and WGRZ aired some HD content as early as February 2010.[33]The 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO was included in the upgrade.

From approximately 1995 until the end of 2009, WIVB-TV built and operated a large network of over eighty AWS/WeatherBugweather stations (under the name "Neighborhood WeatherNet" ), mostly at local schools. WIVB-TV's involvement in the Neighborhood WeatherNet was discontinued at the beginning of 2010, though the stations, now under WeatherBug's control, remain operational. In 2020, WIVB signed on with the New York StateMesonet,a state-operated weather station network.[34]WIVB-TV also previously operated a localDoppler radarin the 1990s and early 2000s (known as "4 × 4 Warn Doppler" because it factored in stations inRochester,SyracuseandCleveland), but shut it down in the early 2000s in favor of using data from the nearbyNational Weather ServiceDoppler Radar inCheektowaga.

WIVB-TV ended its separate sports segments in March 2015 and integrated sports reports into the regular newscasts.[35]The sportscasts returned under Nexstar ownership in 2017. A one-hour afternoon newscast was added in the 4 p.m. weekday time slot in early 2016.[36]

Accolades and honors[edit]

A WIVB-TV truck driving through the streets of the 2012St. Patrick's Dayparade inBuffalo, New York.

For most of the time since 2000, WIVB-TV has been the most-watched news station in Western New York (according toNielsen) after rival WKBW-TV's long winning streak ended. The station regularly scores ratings wins for every newscast it airs from morning to night. It has become so dominant in the market that it at one time garnered the highest television ratings for a local newscast in the entire nation, according to advertisements run by the station, an honor regained in February 2008. As of late, rival WGRZ, which has also had strong ratings in the area has begun to challenge WIVB-TV's dominance, specifically in the weeknight 5 and 5:30 newscasts according to Nielsen's May 2007 sweeps data.

This station reclaimed the top position in the November 2007 sweeps although still in a statistical tie with WGRZ, and as of May 2009, is now solidly back in first place. All three stations in the Buffalo market have been, at various times in their history, among the highest-rated stations in the country and they continue to be fiercely competitive. The cable carriage disputes in October 2008 threatened WIVB-TV's high standing, pushing the station to a distant third, but with the official November sweeps out and the disputes resolved, WIVB-TV regained the lead. The end ofThe Oprah Winfrey Showin 2010, which traditionally has given a strong lead-in to WIVB-TV's newscasts, were expected to mark the end of WIVB-TV's lead in the ratings. Ratings for its replacement for the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons,Anderson,had initially been very poor, to the point where despite being placed in an earlier time slot, it had caused harm to both the show airing immediately after it (The Dr. Oz Show), and the evening newscasts, which are currently firmly in second place, halfway between new market leader WGRZ (which hasThe Ellen DeGeneres Showas a lead-in to its evening newscast) and third-place WKBW-TV (which hadThe Doctorsas its lead-in).[37]By the start of the 2012 season, the ratings for bothAndersonand the WIVB-TV newscasts had recovered.[38]By November 2018, WIVB had reclaimed the lead in news viewership following several years in which WGRZ had the highest viewership.[39]

The station and its staff have won severalEmmy Awardsincluding one in 1999.

Notable former staff[edit]

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

Subchannels of WNLO and WIVB-TV[40]
License Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
WNLO 23.1 1080i 16:9 WNLO-HD The CW
23.2 480i Rewind Rewind TV
WIVB-TV 4.1 1080i WIVB-HD CBS
4.2 480i QVC QVC
49.4 480i 16:9 GetTV GetTV(WNYO-TV)
Broadcast on behalf of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

WIVB-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, overVHFchannel 4, at 9 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHFchannel 39,[41]usingvirtual channel4. It is one of several Buffalo area stations seen in thesouthernportion of the Canadian province ofOntario,includingToronto,which is the station's largest target audience. On April 30, 2009,Shaw Broadcast ServicesandShaw Directstopped transmitting the WIVB-TV signal, replacing it with CBS-ownedWWJ-TVin Detroit.[42]WIVB-TV also served as the default CBS station for portions ofSteuben County, New York,due to the absence of a local affiliate in theElmiramarket; this lasted until 2009 when Elmira ABC affiliateWENY-TVlaunched a third digital subchannel (on DT2) that is affiliated with CBS.

Spectrum reallocation[edit]

On April 14, 2017, WIVB announced that it had sold its spectrum in the FCC'sbroadcast incentive auctionand that it would no longer broadcast onUHFchannel 39. The station's programming would be unaffected, as WIVB shares UHF channel 32 with sister station WNLO while holding a separate license; WIVB continues to remap to virtual channel 4.1.[43]The change took effect April 16, 2018.[44]

Because WNLO's broadcast signal is centered further north than the formerWIVB-TV Towerthat was inColden,the move further deteriorated reception of the channel in the westernSouthern Tier,where it had already been marginalized after the first digital transition and move to UHF, while at the same time improving the station's coverage along theGolden Horseshoein Ontario, including a city-grade signal in Toronto.[45]To restore its Southern Tier coverage area, Nexstar reached an agreement to transfer channel 32 to WUTV, which has historically put a greater emphasis on its Canadian viewership than WIVB has; WIVB and WNLO would in turn receive the channel 36 allocation (being vacated by adjacent-market channels WENY-TV andCITS-DT) that WUTV had originally purchased, which will allow it to reposition its signal so that it again serves the Southern Tier.[2][1]The realignment took effect on the day of the repack, August 1, 2019.[46]

Carriage disputes[edit]

WIVB-TV has had significant contract disputes with both of the major cable television providers in the station's coverage area,Time Warner Cable(nowSpectrum) which covers most ofWestern New Yorkand Atlantic Broadband (nowBreezeline) which covers much of itsNorthern Pennsylvaniaarea as well as the rest of the Western New York region. In both cases, WIVB-TV demanded a rights fee of 25 cents per month per subscriber (in addition to another 25 cents for sister station WNLO) and refused to allow the carriers the right to carry the signal. The agreement with Time Warner Cable expired on October 2, 2008.[47]WIVB-TV and WNLO were taken off Time Warner Cable at 12:30 a.m. on October 3 and were replaced withCBS College Sports NetworkandHBO Familyrespectively when an agreement between LIN TV and Time Warner Cable could not be reached. According to the station, LIN TV and Time Warner Cable were still trying to work on a deal even after the channels were dropped. Time Warner Cable stated negotiations broke off at the time of the shutoff.

After that, WIVB-TV openly advocated for Time Warner Cable customers to switch toDish Network.Time Warner Cable, in turn, gave away free antennas and struck a deal with theBuffalo Bills Radio Networkto simulcast the audio of the games on cable channel 4. Buffalo Bills games and some CBS programs were restored inNiagara Countythrough Toronto-basedCTVstationCFTO-TV(and in other parts of the region throughWROC-TVandWSEE-TV). InErie,Cattaraugus,Allegany,and western Steuben counties, WIVB-TV continues to (in addition to block its signal) enforce itssyndication exclusivityon Bills games preventing them from being brought in from another market. An agreement was reached between LIN TV and Time Warner Cable on October 29 allowing WIVB-TV and WNLO to return to Time Warner channel lineups. The deal, the financial terms of which were not made available, was to expire on May 31, 2013.[25]

There was no agreement or negotiation with Atlantic Broadband, but that company continued to retransmit WIVB-TV without permission through 2008.[48]Atlantic Broadband announced it would discontinue carrying WIVB-TV in favor of WSEE-TV on January 1, 2009, and were apparently making no effort to negotiate a new deal.[49]However, due to this date falling on a holiday, WIVB-TV granted a 30-day extension at the end of which was an agreement that allowed WIVB-TV to continue to be carried uninterrupted.[50]The agreement, originally set to expire in January 2012, was presumably renewed, as the channel remains available on that company's providers. WNLO was not included in the agreement, and CW service is now provided in these areas by WSEE-DT2.

On March 4, 2011, LIN Media pulled WIVB-TV and WNLO from Dish Network (the same service WIVB-TV and WNLO explicitly advised viewers to change to during the Time Warner Cable dispute) due to the expiration of the existing retransmission consent agreement; the blackout lasted nine days.[51]

WIVB was pulled fromDirecTVas part of a broader dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar on July 4, 2019, a dispute that was resolved on August 29.

WIVB was again pulled from DirecTV as part of another dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar at 7 p.m. (ET) on July 2, 2023.[52]

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