The Federal Communications Commission has greenlit Paramount’s petition to allow foreign investors to own at least 49.5 percent of its equity—should the media behemoth successfully acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

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    2 days ago

    This just means that no one watches TV news anymore. God knows, its been 27 years since I have.

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      2 days ago

      This just means that no one watches TV news anymore. I have free cable, long story, and I still don’t watch it.

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        22 hours ago

        Indeed. I had a choice to make when broadband was first rolled out in my hometown. Pay for cable TV or internet. Didn’t have the capability for both, and figured that paying for a two-way communication service was a better deal, so the cable TV was cut in '99.

        I used to watch the network nightly news on youtube but I noticed that the programming got shorter and shorter each year… as the commericals took more of the half-hour airtime… it was like… naaah… so quit it all and switched to news journals and independent sources.

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          Oh yeah, you could actually watch a movie on TV around then. Now all I think is STFU whenever I an advertisement for anything comes up. Adding in all the websites that are like sign up! make an account! pay us please, turn off your adblocker (on my phone I use a neutral DNS lol.)