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Coalition for Local News

Nexstar founder, chairman and CEO Perry Sook. (Courtesy image)

Nexstar CEO downplays streaming business after CW launches FAST platform

May 10, 2024May 9, 2024

Nexstar’s CEO Perry Sook disparaged the streaming television business, several weeks after the company’s broadcast network launched its first free streaming TV channel.

A sound technician with ESPN helps produce a telecast of a football game. (Photo by Maize & Blue Nation via Wikimedia Commons, Graphic by The Desk)

Some Fox, ABC affiliates might be missing from new sports streaming service

April 21, 2024March 12, 2024

The joint venture being developed by Fox, Disney’s ESPN and Warner Bros Discovery might not offer every ABC and Fox station as once suggested.

A television remote.

Poll: Most Americans don’t want streaming services regulated like cable

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024

More than half of Americans surveyed say they oppose efforts to regulate cable-like streaming services under the same rules as cable and satellite platforms.

FCC Chairperson Jessica Rosenworcel appears in an undated handout photograph. (Image courtesy FCC, Graphic by The Desk)

FCC chair says local news producers should get priority review of license renewals

November 14, 2023

The head of the FCC says prioritizing those who produce and air community-based content would help support local journalism.

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Networks, streamers band together to oppose FCC changes

July 27, 2023

The Preserve Viewer Choice Coalition pits major broadcast network owners against local affiliate groups in the fight over the streaming television industry’s future.

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