Local TV’s consolidation-for-journalism argument echoes newspapers, radio
Broadcasters cite local news as justification for bigger scale, but newspaper and radio consolidation didn’t preserve newsrooms. Operators should demand measurable journalism commitments from deals, not assume scale alone helps local coverage.
Why it matters. Regulators and local operators can no longer accept scale alone as proof of journalism benefit, forcing broadcasters to attach measurable local-coverage commitments to future consolidation deals.
Signal from TVREV · Tim Hanlon · read the original.
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