ABC’s Negotiations With Local TV Stations Concerning, Says FCC Commissioner

Local stations are now more trusted by communities than national media networks, Brendan Carr said.
ABC’s Negotiations With Local TV Stations Concerning, Says FCC Commissioner
The ABC logo outside of ABC headquarters in New York on Feb. 24, 2010. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has raised concerns about the impact of TV network ABC’s ongoing broadcast agreement negotiations with local TV stations.

“My understanding is that ABC is attempting to extract onerous financial and operational concessions from local broadcast TV stations under the threat of terminating long-held affiliations,” Carr wrote in a Dec. 21 letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, first obtained by CNN. Disney owns ABC.
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