Jim Rutenberg

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207 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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On the Media · The FCC’s Pressure Campaign to Reshape Broadcast TV · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, then you can't preempt these shows because if you preempt too many of these shows, we're losing money on those shows in your market.

Now we can't afford football.

You don't get football.

We all go down the tubes.

That's the argument.

So while all of this can happen without the FCC, the FCC is inserting itself now.

in these negotiations, and they give Sinclair and Nexstar a little more heft.

Hey, the FCC is going to make us do this now.

We got to do what the FCC wants.

And again, Brendan Carr, he'll say, we think there's an imbalance in these negotiations between the networks and the station groups.

We want the station groups, our people.

Doesn't quite say that, but sometimes he does in different ways.

We want our people to have more heft in these negotiations to do what we want them to do.

And as you can see, so much rides on this.

And Daniel Sir said to me about this, I'd love a day when maybe Sinclair and Nextar, they're their own mini networks.

And they show the Leonard Leo family-friendly patriotic programming that I think red state America is deprived of by these networks.

So what's at stake here?

I think a lot's at stake.

Because if you think that broadcast television still has some sway in this country, and I think it does, then you have a government effort to change that for ideological reasons.

And that could change the business.

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