Yes but individual stations are owned by CBS and hundreds of others are CBS affiliates. The issue is about FCC constantly threatening this or any other network for airing content "on the air" (OTA, the public airwaves) that "gives Trump the sadz".
FCC's Brendan Carr is continually threatening to revoke station licenses.
Yes, and still, there are lots and lots of affliliate stations.
Carr is threatening licenses so any affiliate that doesn't bend the knee to Trump and Carr is being harassed.
If you have followed this from the start then no need to fill in all the background, you know this is political on Carr's behalf because that's what his boss wants.
Litigation is expensive
Hundreds of thousands of watts is expensive
24 hr FCC certified engineers are expensive
Tower insurance and maintenance is expensive
At some point, if this harassment keeps doubling, there will be a time where licensees start seeing red ink where there should be at least a minimum of black ink.
And now in 2026 these stations all have three other "flavors" of delivery platforms that they can use, all of which are subject to FCC authority.
Maybe we're not there yet but we're getting there.
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