Fox Tv Stations CEO Jack Abernethy informed attendees on the 2025 Florida Affiliation of Broadcasters Annual Conference that possession restrictions as one of many greatest obstacles going through native journalism, saying station teams aren’t “sufficiently big.”
“The hazard isn’t that information organizations are too huge. The hazard is that they’re not sufficiently big and financially robust to be impartial,” Abernethy stated. “Native journalism nonetheless issues. It issues greater than ever. And certain, journalists are fast to defend free speech. However too many are too gradual to defend the free market. They need to do each.”
He additionally stated the station group was innovating so it might sustain with the calls for of gross sales purchasers.
“In a nutshell we’re assembly prospects the place they’re, be it on linear, social or streaming, and doing it with an obsessive deal with innovation, prices and effectivity,” Abernethy stated.
The Florida Affiliation of Broadcasters (FAB) is a non-profit company chartered by the State of Florida to advertise cooperation and understanding amongst broadcasters, each radio and tv, in addition to different organizations related inside the broadcast business.
