The FCC spent years giving broadcasters reasons to invent complicated ways not to own stations, and is now giving them reasons to own those stations after all.

The Charter-Cox merger is more than a cable television story: it gives one of the country’s largest broadband connectivity companies substantially greater scale to challenge the traditional economics of local television.

If “stronger local journalism” is the public-interest case for greater broadcast consolidation, it should come with measurable commitments.

Many of the companies that once helped reinforce local broadcast television viewing are no longer in the business of promoting television itself.

Next week’s vote at the FCC is likely to replace a decades-old national TV broadcast station ownership cap formula with a substantially more subjective regulatory standard - and a whole new set of challenges.

Baseball’s next great question is not simply how the sport divides existing revenues — but who controls the next generation of local media rights.

The likely winners of FCC Chairman Carr’s proposed rule change are not the communities he invokes in his rhetoric.

Broadcasters argue that local television remains America's most important source of local news, and thus deserves greater regulatory flexibility. But maintaining that position requires more than producing local newscasts efficiently - it requires preserving what makes them uniquely trusted in the first place.

Political advertising is buoying local television's economics. Whether it ultimately strengthens the industry's future, however, depends on what broadcasters choose to build with the proceeds.

As audiences move beyond channel numbers, TV station groups are increasingly reorganizing their duopolies around a single local brand identity rather than individual stations.

Broadcasters cannot out-scale Silicon Valley, out-engineer streaming platforms, or out-target digital advertising giants. But they can still offer something the largest technology companies often struggle to manufacture authentically: a sense of place.

Local broadcast TV’s real challenge is not how to preserve every part of the linear schedule. It is how to preserve the parts that still matter while shedding the parts that no longer do.

The old characterization of broadcasting as a “license to print money” feels increasingly anachronistic. What remains is a business in stewardship mode — focused less on building for the future than on managing through a prolonged unwinding.

NBC is taking a meaningful swing at the core idea of what a “national-meets-local” sports broadcast should look like — and, in the process, signaling where sports television may be headed next.

The combined Nexstar-TEGNA now has to prove that a vastly larger footprint can translate into sustainable economics in a shrinking linear TV ecosystem — without triggering backlash from regulators, distributors, or local markets.

The recent surge of games returning to broadcast television may represent something closer to a transitional solution than a permanent one.

Premion’s Blake Hebert provides insight into the findings from their landmark 2026 CTV/OTT Advertiser Survey.

TikTok’s local turn could become a powerful distribution partner for revitalized journalism. Or it could further platformize and fragment an already stressed ecosystem.

New research shows 78% of CTV advertisers are already running live sports campaigns. Premion's Peter Jones on what that means for local and regional brands.

A new collab between LG Ad Solutions, AdImpact and CCR Media looks to make local CTV buying easier and more data driven across every US DMA.