Streaming TV Giants Have a Local TV News Problem

2023/07/22 02:41

An FCC loophole lets the owners of networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC negotiate streaming deals on behalf of their affiliates. Now a new coalition of TV station owners are planning to fight back.

On Feb. 28, hundreds of local broadcast station executives gathered at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. On the agenda for the NAB-sponsored conference were panels and fireside chats with Sen. Ted Cruz and FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, among others.

But on the sidelines of the conference, according to an attendee, executives also commiserated over a long-simmering fight between the owners of the local TV stations, and their network partners, a fight that burst into the public eye that same month.

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