Nexstar is pushing its local stations to stop running segments from national affiliates like @nbcnews.com and to run @newsnation.bsky.social instead. Tegna’s CNN partnership could be next to go if the integration with Nexstar is allowed to progress.
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First in @bloomberg.com: Ted Cruz and @cantwell.senate.gov wrote to FCC Chair Brendan Carr, raising "serious concerns" about the staff-level vote that approved the Nexstar-Tegna media merger.
Outside the FCC vs. inside the FCC today
In February 2018, when Philadelphia won the Super Bowl, Carr was rooting for the Eagles, the despised division rivals of his childhood team in Washington. The following season, as quarterback Patrick Mahomes dominated the NFL, Carr switched to cheering on the Chiefs—goading Pai and former Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, both natives of Kansas, with taunts that he was the agency’s biggest Chiefs fan. In 2019, Carr cheered for the Rams in their Super Bowl bid, then reversed back to the Chiefs before moving on to the ascendant Bengals in 2022. Although Carr maintains he’s still a Commanders fan at heart, his constantly shifting loyalties to whichever team came out on top turned into a long-running joke at the FCC. “He was a bandwagoner,” says Pai, who remains loyal to the Chiefs despite their disappointing 2025 season. “And now that the tides have turned, he’s gone to what he considers to be greener climes.”
As a lifelong fan of an absolutely heartbreaking sports team, I see great significance in these two paragraphs
In @kelcee.bsky.social’s Brendan Carr profile: “When the subject of diversity came up at an industry event in 2018, Carr declared that anyone who believes the industry adequately represents the demographics of the country ‘isn’t walking around with their eyes open’” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Now that CBS has settled with Trump in his alleged news bias case, all eyes are on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and how he's going to handle the pending merger of CBS' parent company and the Skydance media company.
One thing he might do? Add a CBS news bias monitor.
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Is it over [here] now?