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Local Content
"Consolidation of ownership in varying forms does not lead to an increase in local news content." A recent study found that news stations operated by a small media company produced more local news and more locally produced video than large chain-based broadcasting groups. It was then argued how the FCC claimed, in 2003, that with deregulating cross-ownership how they claimed that larger based media groups produced better quality local content. Research by Philip Napoli and Michael Yan showed that media groups that teamed up together actually produced less local content. In a different study, they also showed that "ownership by one of the big four broadcast networks has been linked to a considerable decrease in the amount of televised local public affairs programming"

The major reasoning the FCC made for deregulation was that with more capital broadcasting-organizations could produce more and better local content. However, the research studies by Napoli and Yan showed that ones team-up, they produced less content.