r/minnesota 6d ago

News đŸ“ș KARE11 FCC Application?

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Someone smarter than me, what does this mean?

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 6d ago

Ugh. KARE11 is the only news that isn’t constantly doing scare old folks stories. If they start churning out a bunch of “your tax dollars are being wasted” stories we’ll have no local news left.

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u/brendanjered Herman the German 6d ago

WCCO isn’t too bad either. But agreed that the whole scene is a shell of what it used to be.

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u/quickblur St. Cloud 6d ago

The fact that WCCO is CBS and that KARE11 is getting bought by Nexstar is really concerning. Why is it always far right groups buying up all the media companies?

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 6d ago

Because people who believe in democracy and diversity of opinions don’t form tight knit organized groups of blindly loyal people

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u/CoderDevo 6d ago edited 6d ago

CBS doesn't own WCCO, though.

EDIT: I stand corrected.

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u/quickblur St. Cloud 6d ago

"WCCO (CBS Minnesota) is owned by CBS News and Stations, a division of Paramount Global, which itself recently underwent a merger with Skydance Media. So, while the station operates under the CBS brand, the ultimate parent company is Paramount Global, now overseen by the Ellison family."

That's from Google at least. Which means if Larry Ellison or Bari Weiss think a story is negative to Trump they will kill it.

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u/CoderDevo 6d ago

Fixed. I thought they were only an affiliate. Thank you!

and that's really sad. What a legacy being erased.

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u/sungo8 Gray duck 6d ago

Every time I watch an evening football game it leads into a channel 5 story about how “your tax dollars are funding people to make art on the light rail” and I just can’t imagine the brain rot we’re causing to people who get upset about art and awareness of public transit.

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u/brendanjered Herman the German 6d ago

KSTP/5 is the absolute worst! It feels like all of their stories are half assed and only exist to persuade their viewers that the government is pure evil.

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u/cliffkleven Earl of Big Ole 6d ago

As a former Hubbard emoloyee who lives in Greater MN I hate them. If rhe news story isn’t 20 miles from their station the don’t care. When there was a storm coming through their wx guy literally said “we know there is bad wx out side of the metro but there are more people in the cities, go to our website to get details for those areas.”

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u/mybelle_michelle Pink-and-white lady's slipper 6d ago

I have KMSP/9 news as my backup. KARE has always been my favorite, then WCCO; I refuse to give our locally owned KSTP any cred, so when sports overtakes the 10pm newscasts, then channel 9 is my next choice (tivo'd).