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(Reuters) -The U.S. FCC has started reviewing the relationship between TV networks and affiliates to examine how local broadcasters can meet their “public interest obligations,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said on Wednesday.
Carr, in a post on X, said the FCC had initiated the review because national programmers are “reportedly preventing those broadcasters from serving their local communities – including by punishing them for exercising their right to preempt national programming.”
“The FCC has now started a proceeding to examine ways we can empower local broadcasters to meet their public interest obligations by reviewing the network / affiliate relationship for the first time in more than 15 years,” Carr added.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil)
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