The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/24/montereys-kion-tv-shuts-down-its-newsroom-will-apparently-just-play-kpix-news/Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called KPIX News on KION, which sounds like just KPIX News.   What with the whole Jimmy Kimmel dust-up over the last week, some of the public is just learning about the existence of chains of local TV station owners we were not familiar with, like Nexstar and Sinclair. The latest of these to enter the lexicon is a Missouri-based parent company called News-Press & Gazette Company, which owns 13 small-market stations in the western US. And we learn of them as KRON4 reports that

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