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The Silent Crisis in Local Television: The Broadcast Engineering Brain Drain No One Wants to Talk About

For years, local television groups have obsessed over ratings, retrans fees, streaming strategy, digital transformation, and cost containment. But behind the scenes, another crisis has quietly been building inside television stations across America. The engineering brain drain. And unlike a bad ratings book or a missed revenue forecast, this problem cannot be fixed overnight. Because […]

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The Media Industry’s Warning Signs Are Flashing — And Broadcast Television Should Be Paying Attention

There is absolutely a direct correlation between the collapse of the newspaper industry, the consolidation of the radio business, and the current trajectory of broadcast television. In fact, if you zoom out far enough, the pattern is almost impossible to ignore. First came newspapers. Then radio. Now television. Different platforms. Same economic story. The uncomfortable

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