Controversy
Some groups, such as Sinclair Broadcasting, have attempted to centralise not only routine operational tasks but also the production of local news. The News Central format, which Sinclair abandoned in 2006, involved inserting small blocks of local content into an otherwise-national newscast, which would then be presented to local viewers as having been generated at the local station.
The resulting product contains largely the same content (and potentially the same journalistic biases) in each market in which it appears, raising objections from proponents of localism and opponents of concentration of media ownership.
The reduction in local broadcast-related jobs as tasks are moved to central locations has also drawn objections from trade unions.
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