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The article is almost entirely speculation that Trump will interfere in the ESPN-NFL Network merger.

Let us make one thing clear: Carr can directly threaten the licenses of the ABC Owned Television Stations. That's scary enough.

ABC will feed Celebrity Family Feud tonight instead of the JKL rerun, it was just announced. I wonder if any other group will take the Sinclair Kirk tribute instead of this.

The video is now private, so what did he say?

They eventually put up an article, but it is very sparse.

The word is that CBS will make a cheaper Colbert replacement show from Broadcast Center with no audience or band.

Note that Daystar's financials aren't publicly available because it's legally a church.

A non-for-profit godcaster like KLOVE or TBN could still buy it.

Maybe ABC News Live, CBS News 24/7 and NBC News Now, for a given definition of "straight"? Also Reuters and the remnants of Scripps News have streaming channels.

Fox and YouTube reached a new deal back on August 28. TelevisaUnivision's current deal with YTTV expires on September 30th, and the relevant channels are in danger of being moved to the Spanish-only tier: https://deadline.com/2025/09/youtube-tv-carriage-dirpute-televisaunivision-spanish-language-pay-tv-1236513583/ Warner Bros. Discovery is also suing Sling over their channels' inclusion on Day Pass: https://deadline.com/2025/09/warner-sues-sling-tv-limited-passes-breach-of-contract-1236513823/

They're giving 4 PM on Saturdays to self-described "MAGA lefty" Batya Ungar-Sargon starting 9/20, thus abandoning any pretense of being a straight news channel: https://deadline.com/2025/08/newsnation-batya-ungar-sargon-opinion-1236497854/

At some point during the process involving this deal, the status of WPIX should be resolved (which may well result in the FCC blessing the arrangement).

YouTube and Fox have reached a short-term extension (after a statement of support for Fox from Brendan Carr) , signaling that a new carriage deal is near: https://deadline.com/2025/08/fox-youtube-tv-set-short-term-extension-carriage-renewal-1236499379/

Disney is suing Sling over its Day Pass plan, which Disney says offered their channels without informing them: https://deadline.com/2025/08/disney-sues-sling-tv-mini-bundles-violate-carriage-deal-terms-1236498333/

More grist for (at least an interim month of) Fox One.

The decision to cancel him was made by the previous ownership as one of the last decisions they made on the way out.

TBN is countersuing, claiming among other things that Dr. Phil Primetime isn't the continuation of the syndicated series that McGraw supposedly promised would air on the channel. (An interesting point, given that Primetime was much more politics-oriented than the lifestyle-focused syndie program; Wikipedia considers them separate shows.)

The New York Times has released an article composed of interviews Shari Redstone did over the last year which were withheld until the merger closed (article gifted to here by me): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/business/media/shari-redstone-paramount-trump-settlement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fU8.7v9Y.7meP8uzoG7Ty&smid=url-share

cbsatlanta dot com now redirects to the CBS News Atlanta landing page.

It looks like this will have all the current in-season program episodes available to cable/vMVPD customers who have a Fox station in their packages that get loaded on Fox dot com the exact minute linear TV broadcasts begin (yes, shared with Hulu the next day), and live feeds of Fox stations as well.

Giving the timing of affiliation contracts, MyNet may stay where it is.

Carr has sent a letter to NBCUniversal stating that it is going to investigate station renewals that "...attempt to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations." https://deadline.com/2025/07/fcc-comcast-nbc-investigation-affiliates-1236474051/

The inaugural Versant board members have been announced: https://deadline.com/2025/07/comcasts-versant-sets-board-of-directors-1236467201/

The House just passed the Senate's amended version of the bill, sending it to Trump's desk. Trump pledged to try to fund money for tribal radio stations as part of the Senate approval.

The statement CBS made was pretty clear that they aren't going to produce a replacement talk show.