Jim Rutenberg
speaker
207 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Jim Rutenberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They'll have too much power.
Now, it's very old-fashioned now in the internet era, but it exists still.
And they want that cap lifted.
Brendan Carr wants to do it.
Daniel Sir wants it to happen.
And why is that?
Because if those stations that have shown that they will play along with Brendan Carr and the Trump administration on things like Kimmel, if they're bigger, they can bring more pressure to bear on the big networks to not show Jimmy Kimmel.
or to let them suspend more programming that gets them in trouble with the FCC.
Maybe it's David Muir's 630 Newscast, by the way, a very highly watched program in this country.
That's absolutely objectively true.
But it gets more complicated than that with the way that their relationships work with ABC.
They like their ABC affiliation.
They like their network affiliations in general.
Why, most of all, believe it or not, football.
Football is the driver of all things television.
Every station that has football makes a lot of money.
Sinclair can't afford right now football on its own.
It needs the network for it.
Nobody can except for the networks and the streamers.
So what the networks can say to a Nexstar or a Sinclair is, hey, you want football?
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