For the past 34 years, KSNV has used a News helicopter to cover the news in and around Las Vegas.

But that isn’t the case any longer.

The Sinclair station says they are grounding their chopper.“It was an expense that, heading into this year, we just couldn’t really justify,” KSNV General Manager Larry Strumwasser told the LV Review-Journal, “So that was the bottom line.”

Kelly Curran, the station’s traffic reporter and meteorologist, who logged many hours in the news chopper is leaving the station and is headed to Hearst-owned KCRA in Sacramento.

If my calculations are correct, KSNV was the last Sinclair station to have a full-time chopper. I guess, now there is none.

You go Sinclair, squeeze all that money tight.