>>24022398 (PB)

I still don't get what Trump is trying to accomplish here. First of all, broadcast licenses are for over the air broadcast. I do not think license renewal denial would stop them on the internet.

Most licenses are granted to individual stations. Stantions usually belong to a group, like Nexstar, Sinclair, Tegna, Hearst, etc. They own stations with different affiliations within the group.

Networks do own a few stations themselves and these could be subject to broadcast license denial.

(Wiki, I know and info may be out of date but informs the process)-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owned-and-operated_television_stations_in_the_United_States

ABC has 8

CBS has 15

NBC has 12

..and so on. Since most network owned stations are in the bigger markets, that would hurt a little to lose a broadcast license.

But what about the stations that are not network owned, just affiliated? Sounds like they could opt, as Sinclair did for a while, to not carry specific programs.

Stations are supposed to broadcast for the public good. Given the current propaganda by the big three networks, that's not a good. If they are paid to propagandize, well, you could see a lot of individual affiliates scrambling for alternative programming.

The sad truth is that most people now use internet and I'm not sure how a broadcast license denial (over the air) would affect that.