It does appear they will be repeating Tuesday's show tonight.

But dame day recording. It will be interesting to see ratings of the Replay from Tuesday. How many in those red brain washing areas want to see it. And accidentally made to see some true news.

Everyone who wanted to watch JKL was able to access it via the internet.
Joke's on them.

also, $$$$$$$$$$$$$ is invloved.

Link to tweet

At the end of this nightmare, stations must be ripped from the arms of these companies much like migrant children have been ripped from their parents arms.

How in the hell did so few companies get so much consolidated broadcast power? NVRM, it's rhetorical.

NO MORE! BREAK THEM UP!
No more TV stations and radio stations owned by the same company in the same market. News MUST be independently reported. We need broadcasts that are responsible to the people.

Not rhetorical. The deregulation of the industry in the mid-'90s meant they could go hogwild buying "bundles" of stations.

I know here in Philly, there was a wild set of buys that included Infinity Broadcasting (with NBC affiliates) being bought by Westinghouse (which had owned CBS at the time), and that resulted with our having 2 CBS affiliates. This eventually resulted in those major stations KYW (previously NBC channel 3) and WCAU (previously CBS channel 10), switching affiliations. They rebranded to "NBC10" and "CBS3". THAT was hard to get used to.

as always, palms were greased.
But, thank you , as always, for providing enlightening information.

and particularly for the majority 104th GOP Congress who passed this -

S.652 - Telecommunications Act of 1996

There is a rule that no single company can own stations reaching more than 39% of TV households in the US. But for UHF stations they only count half of the total households.

Sinclair owns many stations in very small markets, so while they own a ton of stations, their total coverage is only around 39%. They only own a station in only 1 of the 10 largest media markets and only 6 of the top 25.

On the other hand, Nexstar also owns a bunch of stations, but they are in much bigger markets in general. Nexstar has stations in 8 of the top 10 markets in the US. Nexstar stations cover about 80% of all households, but because of the discount, they are only "charged" with half of that coverage allowing them to stay around the 39% limit. However, they want to buy Tegna who owns another 60 some stations. If that were to go through, the Nexstar would be over the 39% limit even with the discounts.

I don't know how the FCC ever came up with a 39% limit, it seems completely arbitrary. But what is clear is there should be no discounts for UHF stations anymore. When the discount was implemented, UHF stations generally had weaker signals, but that changed when TV transitioned from analog to digital. Now almost all stations broadcast over UHF.

The limit on ownership should probably be about 25% of households, but if they ever change it, you can bet it will stay higher than that.

not pay as well as a network program.

How are you going to solicit ads for your Seattle local station while being associated with outright fascist nonsense?

It always is.

What the Sinclair statement says:

Yes, it does matter. When will we see this responsible broadcasting? Responsible does not mean censorship.

"explain" to Sinclair and Nexstar that Disney has the ability to not give them other programming that they are ideologically "OK" with and therefore that ad revenue could disappear as well. It is one thing to be the guy in control of holding the megaphone while it is a very different matter about who owns the output that goes through the megaphone.

To me, that translates to Democrats getting out the vote.

It would be nice if a majority of the People valued their country enough to pay attention and show up.

...More than ABC needs Sinclair. ABC could disenfranchise Sinclair's stations. Move their affiliation to another station in the market. ABC loses nothing, Sinclair loses a prime national affiliate. How's The CW doing for ya'?

Sinclairs flagship station (well one of two). Washington DC area. ABC affiliate. I'm sure the station got plenty of complaints.

Probably why Sinclair and Nexstar like to affiliate more with Fox if it can.