Station portfolio and marks INSP’s expansion into broadcast Transaction furthers the strategic evolution of CMG’s broadcast Involving the sale of CMG television stations in twelve markets. Media Group (CMG), an industry-leading media company, and the generalĮntertainment cable network INSP, LLC (INSP) announced today thatĪffiliates of each company have entered into a definitive agreement “It is rightwing religious media on steroids,” says the Huff. Jared Huffman tells Mario Cortez of Times-Standard - a whole ‘nother local media story for a different day - that he will oppose the sale of Channel 3 and the rest of the Cox stations to INSP, partly on the Bakker grounds. Why the picture and headline above? Because INSP is the successor of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL Television Network, a staple of late-night dorm room antics for we children of the ‘80s. For instance, INSP has a reality show called “ Ultimate Cowboy Showdown,” hosted by “ Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” singer Trace Adkins, in which seasoned cowboys from across the country are dropped into Wyoming and forced to do cowboy stuff against each other.

Now comes news that Cox Media Group is kicking that ol’ can one pace further down the road, with a sale of Channel 3 and 11 of its current sub-mid-market to bottom-of-the-barrel siblings to a cable channel called “INSP,” which seems to be all about Westerns, both classic and originally produced.

They’ve been bounced around from corporate overlord to corporate overlord, and it’s hard to think of a time that they emerged stronger from the experience.

Poor old KIEM-TV - “News Channel 3,” “Redwood News,” or whatever they’re calling it now - has had a rough couple of decades since the Jim Bernard glory days.

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