Why did Media General merge with Young Broadcasting?

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• Tachyon

  2014-02-03 19:28:18 edited 2014-02-03 19:28:26

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  but why did Disney buy the Bear in the Big Blue House?
  
• Anonus

  2014-02-03 19:29:45

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Because if they didn't, Sumner Redstone would have bought it

  
  

  Personally

  
  

  It wouldn't have been owned by National Amusements or Viacom or any of its subsidiaries, it would have been owned by Sumner Redstone
• Imipolex G

  2014-02-03 19:32:11

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Media General
  
  General Media
  
• Anonus

  2014-02-03 19:41:24

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Media General owns WTEN now, you know

  
  

  They got it from Young
• Imipolex G

  2014-02-03 19:45:48

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Albany Schenectady Troy
  
• One-Winged Eagle

  2014-02-03 19:48:22

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Because you touch yourself at night.
• Imipolex G

  2014-02-03 19:59:10

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  
• Princess Alice

  2014-02-03 20:17:39

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  I thought it was going to be a pun

  
  

  Like "they found the fountain of youth" or something
• Sredni Vashtar

  2014-02-03 22:25:47

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  kingCrackers said:

  Because you touch yourself at night.

  Nothing ever happens when I do that...
• Tachyon

  2014-02-03 22:27:35

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  see a doctor
  
• Tre

  2014-02-04 15:50:26

  
  

  Media General
  
  WNCN (formerly NBC17)
• Anonus

  2014-02-04 15:55:34

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  WNCN, once an NBC O&O

  
  

  it escaped from the hell-house that NBC's O&O division had become by 2006
• Anonus

  2014-02-04 16:14:40

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Also, the comparison my mind makes of Media General-Young to Cookie Jar-DIC makes me think that someone will scoop up Media General by 2017

  
  

  McClatchy? :P

  
  

  (I do wish McClatchy owned broadcast TV stations so that I could talk about them more often, their name is fun to say)
• Anonus

  2014-02-04 16:17:05

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  (Incidentally, ex-Young station WKRN's callsign stands for "Knight Ridder Nashville" and WTEN was its sibling under Knight Ridder as well; McClatchy is Knight Ridder's successor and owns most of its old newspapers)
• Tre

  2014-02-04 16:37:28

  
  

  
  
  -scanner noise-
• Sredni Vashtar

  2014-02-04 16:38:57

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Incidentally, the German equivalent to the title of Knight was Ritter.
• Anonus

  2014-02-04 19:24:39

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  I know that bit of trivia about Knight Ridder's name...
• Tachyon

  2014-02-05 00:12:41

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  wasn't Das Ritter the supposed traditional name for Slenderman?
  
  and yes i know Slenderman comes from SA, i'm not thick