As the FCC explores raising station cap limits and station groups aim for more mega-mergers — including Nexstar’s proposed acquisition of Tegna — a new report commissioned by DirecTV shows that markets with a Big Four duopoly, triopoly or even quadropoly have been left with fewer newsrooms and less diversity of voices.
“Recent history shows that when broadcasters acquire a second, third, or fourth station in a local market, they consolidate news operations, leaving one newsroom where there had been two, three, or four, thus decreasing the quality of local news,” wrote DirecTV attorneys Michael Nilsson and Annick M. Banoun in…
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