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NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions surge 37%, Scripps swallows a poison pill, and the White House says Netflix's WBD bid poses 'unique antitrust concerns'

Also in our weekly look at all things technology, media and telecom, Donald Trump wants Americans to drown their inflation worries in ... 'Rush Hour 4'?

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David Bloom & Daniel Frankel
December 01, 2025

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Broadcast blues: Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy gets the drop on Brendan Carr and Nexstar, while Scripps pulls the ‘shareholders rights’ option on Sinclair

The Trump-era consolidation of broadcast TV station groups, recently viewed as an FCC-supported slam-dunk, might be harder to pull off than we all suspected

Just before the holiday last week, family-controlled station owner E.W. Scripps executed a poison-pill strategy in response to a $538 million hostile takeover bid from larger rival Sinclair Broadcast Group. This came after President Trump criticized an FCC proposal to scrap or significantly ease the current station ownership cap, needed to consummate Nexstar Media Group’s proposed $3.54 billion takeover of Tegna.

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