Several employees of Post-Newsweek/Graham Media-owned WDIV-TV (nee WWJ-TV) are accepting buyout offers. This might be good news for WXYZ-TV, because people who are dissatisfied with their favorite News personnel at WDIV-TV might flock to WXYZ-TV’s Newscasts, becoming the Detroit market’s #1 rated Newscasts all across the board for the first time in decades.

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/television/2024/05/28/wdiv-tv-confirms-departure-four-veteran-members-news-team/73887265007/

Post-Newsweek had swapped their flagship Television Station in Washington D.C, WTOP-TV/WDVM-TV/WUSA-TV for WWJ-TV, and changed the call letters to WDIV-TV in the process; because both companies were concerned that the FCC might enact a rule where a company can’t own a Television Station and a Newspaper in the same market; while owning an AM/Mediumwave Radio Station, an FM Radio Station, and a Newspaper in the same market would have remained permissible. Ultimately, this rule never came into fruition.

WDIV-TV (nee WWJ-TV), and WIVB-TV (nee WBEN-TV) are a couple of the inspirations for a rival Television Station that is always a distant third in the local ratings in a Book that I had wrote under my Pen Name “Wilbur Hay” titled “The Day-To-Day Lives Of A Well-Off Couple And Their Autistic Son”, available to purchase from Barnes & Noble:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-day-to-day-lives-of-a-well-off-couple-and-their-autistic-son-wilbur-hay/1140309955?ean=9784336038494