Are there enough Fux Nooze viewers to support ABC, CBS stations
I don't think the Fux Nooze crowd will make up enough for the viewers the major networks will lose and have already lost. So what will be the business models at these networks going forward? They obviously don't care about ratings/advertising so they must think they will just run them as state-type networks forcing shit down everyone's throats, lying incessantly like their cable sister and controlling the narrative for a dictator. Either that or they own all the advertisers already and aren't worried about losing ad revenue anymore. The situation in which we find ourselves now was foreseen by lawmakers early on who made laws limiting local market station ownership. For the last three decades, (maybe more) these conglomerates that own multiple stations like Nexstar, etc kept lobbying and pushing right-wing congressman and white house administrations to water-down and change the laws and FCC rules allowing them to own multiple market stations. With the help of the not-so-supreme and short-sighted thinking court, they have completed the task. We have been living with this for quite a while like frogs in a slow boil not noticing the small and major changes that led up to this. Now it's in all of our faces and we have no one to blame but ourselves. Nexstar now has so many stations it's right wing leader can just force ABC to cancel what that person doesn't like, regardless of what the viewers want.
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