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The deal has Donald Trump's support (and Brendan Carr agrees): https://deadline.com/2026/02/trump-endorses-nexstar-tegna-merger-1236712070

Have they secured the "505" spot on area cable systems?

It's pretty clear they think Televisa is the main brand. It wouldn't surprise me if the entire network was renamed Los Estrellas.

This wasn't reported at all, but I live in Spokane and can confirm that KWSU-TV Pullman shut down as promised as the countdown to the New Year PDT finished. The television market's viewers therefore lost out on the various non-network programs the station aired along with limited PBS reruns. WSU/Northwest Public Broadcasting has replaced the KWSU feed on the PBS website with KTNW Richland, the co-owned mainline PBS station from the Yakima/Tri-Cities market (shared with KCTS Seattle semi-satellite KYVE Yakima) which airs the exact same network programs at the same time as KSPS and Idaho Public Television.

There's no indication who's actually funding "Keep News Local". Its website is utterly barren of information. The usual suspect is possible, but it may be tied to various other conservative funders.

As aired last night, exactly as posted by Global but with a new postscript: https://youtube.com/3Y47dAQhGPo

The account goes to post a (possibly AI) mockup of what the set would look like.

This has nothing to do with how many people donated to the actual public media entities, or any policy changes. The CPB board decided back on December 10th to dissolve, as their original plan, maintaining its legal existence but not doing anything in anticipation of Congress giving them money again someday, was deemed unviable. CPB was never anything more than a funnel from the government to the broadcasters, who are mostly still operating with less money, and it never spoke on the behalf of public media, who have their own lobbying operations.

Paramount has a rebuttal.

Ellison wants the entire company.

The two groups obviously have different owners, so this would pass legal muster with any FCC dating back to Mark Fowler, despite being an affront to the spirit of the original Report on Chain Broadcasting, unlike the various clowncar sidecar companies. In Los Angeles, it would mean operating 4.

Note that the FCC has liberty to disregard the entire content of your statement, but it's the only place where your opinions on the deal can be put on the record.

The only actual violation is if the ident at the top of the hour is wrong, as outside of identification call letters can be trademarked to stations.

I didn't know you could do that.

I'm not a fan YouTube video essays. A summary would be nice.

There will supposedly be a new logo at some point.

They would probably like to keep their options open for potential buyers themselves.

This one is interesting, because NBCU and Hulu + Live TV have come to terms, despite Fubo and Hulu + Live having the same ownership, while Fubo outright declares that the Versant channels are "not... worth the cost to Fubo subscribers" (NBCU is bundling those channels with theirs for at least the current retrans cycle). https://deadline.com/2025/11/nbcuniversal-fubo-take-their-shots-amid-carriage-fight-1236628864/ 11/26: TelevisaUnivision and YouTube TV have reached a new deal, ending the two-month long dispute.

This is an auction for the benefit of American Public Television, the Bob Ross back catalog's distributor, so that they may waive their fees to the body of mostly PBS member stations that carry their programming outside of primetime.

This means that the Nexstar deal will be done with a whole bunch of waivers, both plausible and non, daring opposed parties to try and stop it in the courts.

You mean at the exact time it was to premiere?

The official FCC review on network/affiliate relationships has begun: https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-fcc-network-affiliate-relationships-1236624134/

The Big 4 networks can't be bought on the cheap (Byron Allen lowballed ABC's valuation in a bid that was immediately laughed out of contention), so if they bring the dough...

CPB and NPR have reached a settlement where both NPR's existing satellite service and the independent public radio uplink that was to replace it will both get money, and CPB agreed that Trump's anti-NPR EO was illegal: https://current.org/2025/11/cpb-npr-settle-interconnection-dispute/ CPB was able to prepay for music rights across the whole system (including community radio) through to the end of 2027: https://current.org/2025/10/cpb-secures-music-rights-for-public-media-through-2027/

Arguably Nexstar and Tegna made the worst of an already bad hand because of streaming. The entire TV news infrastructure (including national and major international outlets) has been rocked by streaming, and none them have really recovered.