Episode 3647: Local TV stations mislead over cable/satellite “dropping” their channel | Big win at the ATF – Pratt on Texas 1/16/2025

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Are local TV stations being completely honest with you when they gin up anger and tell you the local cable, or satellite, or internet TV provider is “dropping” their channel? No, they are not telling you the whole truth and are in many cases spinning the issue opposite of truth. It is rarely the cable provider dropping the channel, in almost all cases it is the local station refusing the cable company permission for retransmission of the channel because it will not cough up ever more money to do so – which just gets passed right along to you in your cable or satellite TV bill.
Wikipedia isn’t great but the top part of this entry will give you a basic idea of what is going on and how it got started.
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A Big Win: In victory for gun rights, ATF reverses illegal “zero tolerance” policy for revoking gun store licenses.
Speaker BurrowCrat and his team show more evidence of abandoning the conservative Republicans. Let’s hope it’s just a feint to the Dems.

• Texas Democrats Take Credit for Electing Speaker Burrows
• Burrows announces senior staff, including former TTU Chancellor Robert Duncan
• Dustin Burrows raised $750,000 in runup to his selection as Texas House speaker

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