While the Tegna sale has moved at a glacial pace, the Tegna employees are becoming increasingly frustrated.

Anytime your station is sold, it brings a lot of uncertainty.

The selling owners don’t want to spend any money needed to upgrade or repair things. Jobs go unfilled, and contracts get pushed to the back burner.

One Tegna employee emailed FTVLive with their frustration at the entire process.

“The decision on the Tegna merger is delayed yet again. If this next phase runs to the new May deadline, it'll be 15 months of uncertainty and lack of leadership from the top. Our current CEO is nowhere to be found or heard from. On the station level we are told budgets are frozen because of the sale. Underpaid reporters are being offered raises of just 1.5% when contracts come up, despite covering stories about how inflation is outpacing wage growth. Positions can't be added and only absolutely essential ones are filled. We are going on 6 months without a weekend sports anchor. Our 4 PM newscast was canceled and evening ratings have taken a hit as a result. Tegna has been good to work for with decent benefits, but this period has been frustrating and it feels like we are on a rudderless ship, as most decisions (or lack thereof) are blamed on the pending sale.”