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KDKA-TV used to be a respected news operation. When visiting Pittsburgh, I'd watch them over the others.

Now they are just a clown show, management letting (or better still, insisting) their anchors and reporters post mindless dreck on social media.

These large station groups clearly have no idea how to handle social media. They rarely reel in their anchors who moonlight as amateur influencers or put the kibosh on those using their branded accounts to spout their political bias. But there is no going back now. The damage is done.

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Personally, I'd rather go to work for Sinclair over Nexstar.  Sinclair had an excellent vacation policy at least when I worked there 8 years ago.  I always seemed to have vacation time that I could use and the company very rarely denied me a vacation request - and I only worked there two years.  Plus what I really liked is that if you worked a holiday, you could either choose to get double pay, or time and a half and  comp day.  And vacation was paid in hours not days so I could come in, produce the noon, then bounce for the afternoon - which I did a lot.  It was great.  Plus, the company allowed you to take a pay cut for more vacation days if you wanted - but I never needed to because I always had vacation time and it rolled over into the next year and they paid you for it when you left the company.

In terms of content, while it's pretty much a race to the bottom between the two, I still see Sinclair as being superior.  While many of their sets are hideous looking they still do live reports and have good quality talent.  Lots of Nexstar stations do entire newscasts in large markets without a single reporter presence.

Sinclair websites are also much better than Nexstar which are slow AF and bogged down with ads.

Sinclair also hasn't made an ass of themselves by trying to launch a national news network and having it fail spectacularly.

Yes I do remember the days when Sinclair made all their main anchors go out and do a must-run of the company's propaganda but I feel they have toned it down a lot.

Just my 2 cents.

An FTVLive reader weighs in a CNN future and Don Lemon in particular.

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Ratings for cnn and msnbc are back up to normal levels since the jan 6th hearings but don lemons are bad. On June 21st his ratings held only half of cooper's lead in. He was the only cable news program to not be over 600K viewers. I almost think that cnn viewers heard about Chris's new and WBD lean center plan for cnn and are actually rejecting the left leaning programs like Lemon, Stelter, Acosta. It's almost like when fiat chysler ceo said publicly by accident that the chrysler 200 and dodge dart sedans would not be replaced with generations and sales dropped overnight. Maybe viewers are tired of all three and are not watching on purpose. If I were lemon I'd get my agent to talk with Brooke Baldwin's agent to see if they can get a syndicate franchise talker going. The NYE show they did is actually their ticket if did it. They could do it on a streaming network and /or on broadcast. Cable news is dieing anyways the most powerful thing Lemon could do is leave and start a brand with her.