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The FCC Can Remove the Cap. It Cannot Remove the Excuses.

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Nexstar’s message is straightforward: local television needs room to compete. Fair enough. The rules governing broadcast ownership were written for another era. Before streaming. Before smartphones. Before Google and Meta took an enormous share of local advertising dollars without having to cover one city council meeting, one school closing, one hurricane or one breaking-news event

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Everybody Wants Consolidation. Nobody Wants to Talk About the Hangover.

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The FCC voted to eliminate the national television ownership cap. Broadcasters celebrated. Wall Street started doing math. And now Newsmax says it is preparing to sue. Welcome to the next chapter of local television. The FCC’s vote removed the long-standing 39% national audience-reach cap and replaced it with case-by-case review of broadcast transactions. Newsmax CEO

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The Most Valuable Person in Local Television May Soon Be the One Who Knows What NOT to Automate

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There’s a question being asked inside television companies everywhere right now: What can we automate? Fair question. AI is moving incredibly fast, and local television would be foolish to ignore it. Broadcasters are already using AI and automation to streamline workflows, repurpose content, create clips, generate captions, analyze information and distribute content across multiple platforms.

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The TV Talent Shortage: What Station Managers Can Control

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CARVER CORNER: What station managers can do now to attract, develop, and keep the people who will determine what local television becomes next. Let’s be honest: most television stations do not have a talent shortage. They have a talent-retention problem, a compensation problem, a leadership problem, or a reputation problem. In some cases, they have

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Is It Time to Rethink the Television Talent Agent Business Model?

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Carver Corner By Ty Carver Every industry has business models that make perfect sense, and then there are a few that leave you wondering how they’ve survived for decades without anyone seriously questioning them. One that has always fascinated me is the traditional television talent agent model. Before anyone misunderstands where I’m going with this,

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The FCC Just Changed the Rules. Here’s What I Think It Means for Television.

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The FCC Just Changed the Rules. Here’s What I Think It Means for Television. Today’s FCC vote to eliminate the 39% national television ownership cap is one of the most significant regulatory changes our industry has seen in years. While opinions will vary on whether it’s the right decision, I don’t think there’s much debate

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Scripps Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

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The layoffs at Scripps are not just another corporate restructuring story. They are a signal. A blunt one. And if you work in local television, you should pay attention. For years, local broadcast executives have comforted themselves with the idea that their business is different. And in some ways, it is. But that argument starts

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Perry Sook Is Right. But He Didn’t Tell You the Whole Story.

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Perry Sook recently penned an opinion piece in Fortune warning that local television could become the next newspaper industry if broadcasters fail to compete effectively against Big Tech. His central argument is simple: Google, Meta, Amazon, and other digital giants have consumed the advertising dollars that once supported local media. Newspapers were devastated, and local

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FOX Just Bought Roku. If You Work in Television, You Should Be Paying Attention.

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The television industry received a major signal this week. Not a press release, not another earnings call, and not another corporate memo about “optimizing efficiencies.” A signal. FOX announced its acquisition of Roku in a deal valued at approximately $22 billion. On the surface, it looks like another large media merger. It isn’t. This deal

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AI Is Coming for Local TV. The Question Is: Who Survives It?

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For years, local television executives talked about AI like it was some distant Silicon Valley experiment — something for tech conferences, something for the digital team to “look into.” That phase is over. Artificial Intelligence is no longer coming to local television. It’s already sitting in the newsroom, writing web stories, clipping highlights, generating graphics,

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