If their IT department hasn’t expanded their skills beyond making and maintaining those original websites, I could totally see a long delay happening before/if they join the fediverse.

More likely they aren’t given the budget they have requested.

They are also probably busy doing regular IT things like maintaining the IT infrastructure.

Local news stations don’t really exist in my country so I don’t know how many employees they usually have but it’s possible they don’t even have an IT department.

Ah, yes of course. It’s indeed pretty annoying.

At night and in bed, it blinds me. You can add a setting to the quick settings drop down, that makes the screen go even dimmer.

Well, everyone wanting to buy anything with a proccessor in it, has been getting fucking these last 3 years

It appears IAP are coming later and I assume they will just disable ads for 5€ or something. Just like the original app.