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Don CT said:
This will hurt the Nexstar affiliates in blue states.
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Plenty of blue islands in red states thanks to gerrymandering.

What may really hurt is that the hypothetical consequences of concentrated media ownership now appear more real, meaning there will be more resistance to deal-making. Maybe. I'm not holding out a lot of hope, but just a little hope.

I don't want Nexstar taking over Tegna. Tegna, for all its faults, has some good TV news operations (including in Denver) that will stand up to the powers that be when they misbehave. Nexstar is undistinguished, to say the least. And now it looks like a bunch of spineless rodents ready to roll over and play dead on command. (Don't ask me how something without a spine can roll over. Maybe they can flop.)

Though this is a "developing story", I won't be able to keep up today, so I'll have to take stock again at the end of the day.
 
Mark Roberts said:
What may really hurt is that the hypothetical consequences of concentrated media ownership now appear more real, meaning there will be more resistance to deal-making. Maybe. I'm not holding out a lot of hope, but just a little hope.
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It's not a matter of "if" but when. Carr has questioned the value of ownership limits. This story about radio limits came out yesterday:

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NAB Meets With Gomez, Trusty To Erase Radio Ownership Limits | Radio & Television Business Report

With the FCC poised to revisit the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the coming months, the NAB is pushing full force for the elimination of local radio ownership limits. Its legal team met with advisors to Commissioners Anna Gomez and Olivia Trusty days ahead of the Commission's next open meeting.
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And then there's this from September:

thedesk.net

FCC chairman: Agency will review broadcast ownership rules at meeting

The agency is required to review its broadcast ownership rules every four years.
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So something will happen. Will it be challenged in the courts? We'll see. But the way the law was written encourages ownership rules to be reviewed regularly.

The other side of this is that audiences for broadcast media are diminishing. So adherence to obsolete rules just exacerbates the situation. There are no ownership limits on Netflix.
 
Don CT said:
Nexstar is blocking paid content from its viewers. I’m paying carriage fees to watch.
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I mean, there may be a lawyer who'd try that argument. Again, it's unlikely to get that far. Disney has decided to flex, and Nexstar and Sinclair get x number of pre-emptions before they're in breach.
 
Selective censorship. They sue CBS when they feel their speech has been censored. Then they drop shows when they don't like what a host says.

You can't have it both ways. You're either for freedom, or against it. Make up your mind.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Colbert's remarks last night, as reported (I haven't had time to watch the recording yet) indicate that he's more skeptical of Paramount/CBS's reasoning for cancellation. It's not that he wasn't already skeptical, but the language, as reported, was sharper than it has been. What had been a hypothetical consequence came true with Jimmy Kimmel. The stakes are higher now. It's likely true that Ellison doesn't care all that much about linear TV, but if he wants to get rid of that business, he's not going to want to shop damaged goods. He also has to watch out for collateral damage to the businesses he keeps. I wouldn't raise the probability of a cancellation reversal much...maybe up from 1% to 2%...but these things have a way of gathering momentum.
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Not renewing your contract is not cancellation. "Yellowstone" reruns late night would probably do better than unfunny Colbert.
 
gr8oldies said:
The only answer to this controversy is "Congress Shall Make No Law". We're begging the Government to let us watch a TV show. That's the post.
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We're not.

ABC is going to air the show tonight. Two private businesses, Sinclair and Nexstar, say they won't air it for their viewers. Past a certain number of pre-emptions, they're in breach of their affiliation contracts.

That's the post.
 
desertaire said:
Not renewing your contract is not cancellation.
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It literally is. Unless you're keeping the show and hiring another host to replace the one who's contract you're not renewing, that's exactly what it is.

desertaire said:
"Yellowstone" reruns late night would probably do better than unfunny Colbert.
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Is stating opinion as fact your thing? Because (again):

1. Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS): 2.42 million (airs at 11:35 p.m. Eastern/10:35 p.m. Central)
2. Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC): 1.77 million (11:35 Eastern/10:35 Central)
3. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC): 1.19 million (11:35/10:35)


And he's number one in the 18-49 demo among the 11:35 pm shows:

1. Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC): 220,000
2. Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS): 219,000
3. Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC): 157,000
 
powergate92 said:
Judging from the fact that when Big 5 affiliated stations preempt Prime Time programming for Local Sports it usually only 10 times a year, I would say probably about 10 times or 2 weeks.
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Maybe. Or maybe the contracts have carve-outs for predictable things like that but a bare minimum for "because we feel like it" pre-emptions.

We don't know.
 
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