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October 28, 2025

A shocker in Indianapolis this morning.

DeJUAN McCOY, owner of Circle City Broadcasting which already owns WISH-TV (CW) and WNDY-TV (MyNetworkTV), announced this morning that he is buying WRTV (ABC) from Scripps.

Here's the news release from Circle City and here's the news release from Scripps.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Indianapolis market (and, unless you live there, why would you be?) let me provide some perspective.

Nexstar owns WTTV and WXIN-TV. Those are the CBS and FOX affiliates.

Tegna owns WTHR-TV, the NBC affiliate.

And as mentioned above, Scripps owns WRTV and Circle City owns the former CBS affiliate; WISH-TV, which has a strong on-air news schedule.

And...if you're been paying attention, you know that Nexstar has announced plans to buy Tegna.

I have a journalism degree, and thus, by law, am not good at math.

But even I can figure out that would leave TWO owners for the five local stations that air newscasts.

But, of course, there are some big IFs here.

IF the FCC approves BOTH deals, and IF both deals make it to the finish line (obligatory racing reference for any story involving Indy, also required by law) this would lead to an unprecedented ownership situation in a top 25 market.

As a bad reporter would say "Only time will tell."

We hope to have more on this story in our full newsletter this weekend.

regards,

Rick Gevers