24-10-2023, 11:56 AM
Yeah, if they have 10 stations, at least 7 of them will have a network affiliation - ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW, PBS, MyNetworkTV. They're effectively more like ITV. They should only have looked at how many truly independent stations exist. And I bet they're only in the largest markets where there's more channels than networks to affiliate with. The UK has a smaller population, so it was never going to work on the same scale here.