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Silence is Golden: KFYO’s Resident Loudspeaker Finally Hits Mute

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:37:16 +0000

In a shocking turn of events for anyone who thought yelling into a vacuum was a recipe for immortality, local AM radio fixture Chad Hasty has passed away at the age of 43. Hasty, who spent over two decades ensuring that every West Texan’s morning commute was seasoned with exactly the right amount of political [...]

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DISH and KCBD Enter Month Two of Their Billionaire Breakup, and Guess Who’s Paying for the Therapy?

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:32:44 +0000

In a city where the most exciting Friday night activity is watching a dust cloud swallow a Taco Villa, Lubbockites are now being deprived of the one thing that keeps them tethered to reality: local news. It’s been over a month since DISH Network yanked KCBD and its sister stations off the air, leaving satellite [...]

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One Newsroom to Rule Them All: Nexstar Swallows TEGNA While the FCC Looks the Other Way

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:58:35 +0000

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever tried to find a second opinion in this town, Nexstar Media Group has officially closed its $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA. The FCC and DOJ gave the deal a thumbs-up this week, effectively creating a broadcast Godzilla that now controls local news in roughly [...]

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CBS Decides One Texan on TV is Already One Too Many

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:30:53 +0000

In a move that surprises absolutely no one who has ever tried to get a straight answer out of a corporate lawyer, CBS decided to yank Texas State Representative James Talarico’s interview from The Late Show this Monday. Host Stephen Colbert revealed that the network’s legal team basically gave him the “vow of silence” treatment, [...]

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Trump Suddenly Loves Regulation—But Only When It Keeps His Friends in Charge of Your TV

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:08:59 +0000

In a remarkable plot twist that absolutely no one predicted (except everyone), President Trump has decided he doesn’t want the FCC to lift the national broadcast ownership cap after all. This is awkward, because his own FCC chair, Brendan “Deregulate Everything” Carr, has been practically vibrating with excitement for years at the idea of unleashing [...]

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The Death of Local News: Hedge Funds Bought Your Hometown Paper and Sold It for Parts

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:32:04 +0000

Once upon a time, small-town newspapers were owned by local families who actually cared about things like city council corruption, high school football scores, and who won the pie contest at the county fair. Now, they’re being swallowed by hedge funds that wouldn’t know a Lubbock tornado from a Wall Street one. A new report [...]

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Nexstar Keeps Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off Its ABC Stations – A Symptom of Media Consolidation

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:39:21 +0000

If you turned on KAMC (our ABC station in Lubbock) recently, you may have noticed something missing: Jimmy Kimmel Live! Nexstar Media Group has announced it will continue preempting the late-night show on its ABC-affiliated stations. But this decision isn’t just about one program — it highlights how the consolidation of TV station ownership gives [...]

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Nexstar pulled the plug and Lubbock felt it: How corporate pressure helped push ABC to drop Jimmy Kimmel Live

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:52:23 +0000

If you flipped to KAMC (Lubbock’s ABC affiliate) this week expecting Jimmy Kimmel Live, you met a corporate brick wall. Nexstar, the company that owns KLBK (CBS) and provides services to KAMC through a Mission Broadcasting arrangement, announced it would preempt Kimmel on its ABC affiliates “indefinitely.” Within hours, ABC itself suspended the show. In [...]

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