> Actually it was a couple of big ABC affiliate owners that started the avalanche, and ABC followed…not any government pressure.

This is highly misleading: those affiliates were responding to government pressure. The FCC is currently making key decisions for at least one of them[1], following recent decisions by the same government to attack other media organizations, install government political officers at other companies, or forced other companies to provide money or ownership. There’s absolutely no way those decisions were not made without factoring the current environment in.

1. https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/nexstar-tegna-fcc...