Subject: The FCC's other lever
Recall, the buyout of Paramount, and CBS, required FCC approval. The company honchos only cared about their "change of control" payouts, so, of course, they tossed Colbert and accepted a minder for the news division.

The big broadcasting group that dropped Kimmel first, also has a request before the FCC.

Nexstar, the largest station group in the country, also has a major merger before the Trump administration, its proposed acquisition of Tegna, creating a mega-company with 265 stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, representing 80% of U.S. TV households. Nexstar also is a leading champion in the broadcast industry for the FCC to relax media ownership limits, something necessary to get its deal through regulatory approval. Nexstar owns 32 ABC affiliates out of a total of 200 stations.

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Ethics become expendable, when money is involved.

Steve