Wonderful – great experience for us. It’s so difficult playing the independent schedule because you’re flying coast to coast and getting home at 4 or 5 in the morning ... To have 90-minute flight to Raleigh/Durham and getting home at a decent hour, that was really nice. We enjoyed being in the conference, but independent is who we’ve been historically and through our tradition.

“I’ll be honest, a lot of this is tied to what do the contracts in television look like for us down the road. Our NBC contract comes up in a couple of years; does any expansion happen? We have our ear to the ground. We’re listening and are going to react to what happens. We’re going to go back to independent, but we will be smart in making sure we look at everything as well.”