{"id":2298293,"date":"2026-02-24T21:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2298293"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:55:27","slug":"tv-station-group-consolidation-leaves-markets-with-less-local-news-according-to-new-study-that-directv-has-filed-with-the-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tv-station-group-consolidation-leaves-markets-with-less-local-news-according-to-new-study-that-directv-has-filed-with-the-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Station Group Consolidation Leaves Markets With Less Local News, According to New Study That DirecTV Has Filed With the FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the FCC<\/a> explores raising station cap limits and station groups aim for more mega-mergers \u2014 including Nexstar<\/a>\u2019s proposed acquisition of Tegna<\/a> \u2014 a new report commissioned by DirecTV<\/a> shows that markets with a Big Four duopoly, triopoly or even quadropoly have been left with fewer newsrooms and less diversity of voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent 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,\u201d wrote DirecTV attorneys Michael Nilsson<\/a> and Annick M. Banoun in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the FCC explores raising station cap limits and station groups aim for more mega-mergers \u2014 including Nexstar\u2019s proposed acquisition of Tegna \u2014 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. \u201cRecent history shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2298293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TV-Station-Group-Consolidation-Leaves-Markets-With-Less-Local-News.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298295,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298293\/revisions\/2298295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}