US-Präsident FCC lässt zu, dass Nexstar Tegna kauft und die TV-Besitzobergrenze von 39 % überschreitet | Brendan Carr lässt zu, dass Nexstar, der Favorit des US-Präsidenten, die landesweite Eigentumsgrenze für Sender überschreitet.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fcc-lets-nexstar-buy-tegna-creating-trump-approved-broadcaster-reaching-80-of-us/
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Hanging testicle in human form does massive amounts of damage to US democracy
>In a press release, the Carr FCC said the merger will “enable these broadcast TV stations to counter the growing power that national programmers have amassed in recent years.” Nexstar and Tegna combined have 265 full-power TV stations and eventually will be down to 259 after completing promised divestitures of six stations.
Wow, you made them sell six whole stations out of 265 to get approval for the merger? A real tough customer you are, eh Brendan?
Propogandist assholes. How do we benefit as a country, as a people, by having all our news from just one source?
This kind of stuff is really important because the more this administration controls media, the easier it is for, and they plan to sensor non-friendly news, and spread pro-administration disinformation.
TV is dead. They just didn’t get the news, because they still rely on the newspaper to rip and read.
Can’t we just agree that „mainstream media“ is run by an oligarchy
MAGA kept saying this, I just don’t think they realize that most people under 30 don’t have any of the major news channels. I mean most popular YouTubers have 2x the following of the national news stations…
So buy those channels up, and watch your viewership decline…
Replacing „Trump FCC“ with „U.S President FCC“ kinda messes the title up. Might as well just say FCC.
The national news is nothing compared to the power of these local stations in spreading the MAGA propaganda . The only thing I even care about is our local weather and our guy with his son and another meteorologist has a YouTube forecast that gets me what I need.
How can he legally do this and how can it be defeated in court?
Who knew a president had SO many powers?
„The US approval has been expected at least since February 7, when President Trump endorsed the merger on Truth Social. ‚We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks'“.
How convenient for: [Trump has new plan to ‘rebalance’ media to force them to air more patriotic programming, according to FCC chair](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rebalance-media-patriotic-fcc-propaganda-b2941073.html)
Fascism requires a state controlled media
Capitalism ends in monopolies.
Law suits galore
The rules don’t apply in MAGAmerica….
„President-favorite“
How much more do you really need to know at this point?
Putin’s playbook. Control the media. The press using the oligarchs
GOP MAGA Nazis on the move !
I’ll just go someplace that they’re not broadcasting on and wait for the time when Congress splits this shit up and watch Nexstar sell at a loss.
People watch and trust their local news stations more than any other source. This is hugely dangerous because now 2 “local” broadcasters will own 80% or so of all the local station affiliates in the country. The corporate owners, Sinclair and Nexstar (BIG MAGA supporters btw) will control, edit and bend the news based on their “perspectives”, as they’ve already done during both Trump presidencies. 👀
When whatever is left of this admin gets tossed in prison I really hope we don’t forget to lock this muppet up too
„Will reach 80% of households“
Americans are completely unprepared for how catastrophically bad this is for how their programming is delivered.
Even with their arbitrary justifications, this effectively destroys the competitive market that already effectively didn’t exist.