2025-21318: Empowering Local Broadcast TV Stations To Meet Their Public Interest Obligations: Exploring Market Dynamics Between National Programmers and Their Affiliates

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Summary

In this document, the Media Bureau seeks comment on the current market, regulatory, and contractual dynamics governing the relationship between local television broadcast stations and national programmers in order to identify any barriers that may be preventing local broadcast televisions stations from meeting their public interest obligations and responding to the needs of their local communities.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

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