A waiver is outside the scope of actual regulation. It's based on a subjective opinion from the agency. That opens it up to challenges.
States sue the feds all the time. Texas does it a lot.
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Nexstar ready to hook up with TEGNA?
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A waiver is outside the scope of actual regulation. It's based on a subjective opinion from the agency. That opens it up to challenges.
States sue the feds all the time. Texas does it a lot.
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Here is more fallout on the Nexstar cuts as one more staff member gets removed from their Buffalo affiliate.
Yes, suits are filed to signal or try to show some type of action, but you are being intentionally obtuse in your comparison.
Suits involving licensing/merger approval for federally licensed industries are not common and a complete waste of time and state resources.
Waivers of this sort have never been granted before. The established limit is 39% of US households, and this merger will bring Nexstar to 80%.
Granting of waivers is subject to challenges. The California lawsuit says:
The fact is that the merger has already cost lots of local jobs and cut local news coverage as the stations consolidate.
Nexstar is Cutting Local News Staff At Some of Its ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC Stations | Cord Cutters News
In a significant move reflecting ongoing challenges in the broadcast industry, Nexstar Media Group has initiated a series of layoffs affecting staff at multiple local television stations across the United States. As the largest owner of affiliates for major networks including ABC, CBS, FOX, and...
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Lots of things this current administration does that have never happened before.
Nexstar and TEGNA were already whacking jobs before the merger was announced. TEGNA had been slashing local staff through centralization, hubbing, automation and AI. The only staff that was going to be left at individual stations would be a skeleton news operation.
Killing the merger won’t save a single job. TEGNA and Nexstar will continue to downsize. TEGNA would likely be sold yet again, possibly to someone far worse than Nexstar, or will be unloaded piecemeal to vulture capitalists or companies with a political or religious agenda. In any case more jobs will be cut.
Pick your poison.
That may be true because revenues for the industry are continuing to decline.
But the issue to me is the role of the FCC. The chairman claims that he wants to promote local news, and that broadcast licenses are something sacred. Then he grants a waiver that is bad for local news, bad for broadcast licenses, and bad for local media competition. Now smaller TV companies will have to compete in local markets with a company that has vast national resources. They're not only competing against Amazon and Apple, but the TV stations in their hometown. The FCC has put its thumb on the scale in favor of one company over others.
The thumb on the scale has been a lot of regulations for broadcast outlets competing against new media that has no constraints. The actions of the FCC are easing that imbalance.
Carr is the one who keeps telling broadcasters they have to operate in the public interest. The lawsuit says that granting a waiver so that one TV company controls 80% of the viewers is not in the public interest. Especially if that one company is shutting down local newsrooms.
If Carr thinks it's in the public interest, why didn't he just eliminate ALL ownership rules??? He wants to pick and choose who gets waivers, and that's unfair to all of the other companies who play by the rules.
Are you just going to keep repeating the same thing?
The law says they need to operate in the public interest. Economic viability is necessary to operate at all. The alternative to reducing costs will be stations going dark, is that in the public interest?!? Newsrooms are going to be cut or consolidated no matter what, the economics necessitate that. By allowing this merger, there will still at least be news broadcasts that contain some level of local news and are thereto convey emergency information and broadcast network programming. All of that is in the public interest. This fantasy that news staffing needs to somehow stay constant even when new technology is available that enable lower staffing is no reason to challenge a merger.
Why doesn't he eliminate all ownership rules? Because he cannot do so. He can grant waivers. Congress may choose to change the law removing ownership caps. Until they do, it's on a case by case basis for waiver consideration. The role of the Commission is to make such determinations. Which one have they declined? What have they done that is unfair in this regard since Carr has been Chairman?
Try to limit it to 1 or 2 strawmen in your posts.
May I introduce you to the words of former FCC chairman Kevin Martin:
Specifically:
So no, the Commission CAN repeal ownership limits. Try again.
On to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:
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Nexstar-Tegna Merger Frozen By Judge's Preliminary Injunction
A federal judge just put a halt to Nexstar's proposed $6.2 billion merger with Tegna,
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Nexstar Responds After Tegna Merger Blocked By Judge
Thwarted in what looked to be a Donald Trump-approved $6.2 billion local station mega-deal to merge with Tegna, Nexstar vows to appeal.
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Marvin Bartlett is removed from Lexington's Nexstar station WDKY for the obvious reasons seen here the nexstar cuts tied to the Tegna merger.
Nexstar responded to the ruling Friday night with a statement saying its merger with Tegna had already been completed, after it had received approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.
“This transaction closed more than four weeks ago,” the statement said. “Nexstar Media Group now owns Tegna.”
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“This transaction closed more than four weeks ago,” the statement said. “Nexstar Media Group now owns Tegna.”
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If the deal is approved, it would give the merged company ownership of about 80% of TV stations across the country.
This can't be right.
Maybe having to pay him too much because he's been there so long?
It's not right. The merged company will reach 80% of US households, which exceeds the current limit of 39%
I figured it was something like that. 80% of US TV stations would be a lot of stations.
I agree the lawsuit isn't going to save jobs or save money on those Pay-TV bills either, what the AGs & DirecTV filed in their lawsuits.
Nexstar-Tegna Deal Questions Dodged By FCC Media Bureau Officials At NAB
The $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar and Tegna, a deal poised to reshape the media business, has been on the lips of many NAB Show attendees.
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Nexstar CEO Perry Sook Rips DirecTV For Its Opposition Of Tegna Deal
In his first public comments since a federal judge blocked Nexstar's merger with Tegna, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook ripped DirecTV, a merger opponent..
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