Joint sales agreements and shared services agreements between...
Joint sales agreements and shared services agreements between Nexstar and Mission Broadcasting have created economies of scale and cost savings “which have enabled Mission’s stations to air an additional 170 hours per week of locally produced news,” Nexstar said in…
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an ex parte filing in docket 10-71 (http://bit.ly/1q2qX34). Some Mission stations wouldn’t broadcast news absent the JSA and SSA relationships, it said. The many hours of broadcasting local sports programming wouldn’t be possible with these relationships, it said. The companies asked the FCC to defer any action relative to JSAs “until a decision on the Comcast/Time Warner [Cable] merger has been reached and its impact fully assessed,” they said. The filing recounted a meeting with Mission and Nexstar executives and FCC staff from all the commissioners’ offices and Media Bureau staff. Attributing JSAs will make it harder for LIN’s WJCL Savannah, Ga., to continue working with WGTS Hardeeville, S.C., wrote WJCL General Manager Les Vann to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. The letter is part of an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1fFwEef). “Proposals regarding shared services agreements could go further and could cause even more harm,” wrote Vann. The FCC seems poised to consider an order that would make it harder for TV stations to enter into JSAs (CD Feb 25 p1).