Lol. “Local news network.” It’s hilarious that reporters today are too young to remember how TV used to work.
I’m also skeptical of the claim that the show was first syndicated only on CBS stations. While Donahue started his career as an anchor at the Dayton CBS affiliate WHIO, his show always aired on WDTN (or WLWD, as it was known in 1967), which was an NBC affiliate at the time.