Networks don't have a say in local news content, other than perhaps a limitation on use of video from other networks. Ultimately, the management and the owners of the stations make the decision.
O'Keefe has stated that the videos will run, regardless of what happens to him -- he actually wrote that response in to a question whether he had a "dead man's switch".
No, we probably won't see them from big network affiliates on the East and West Coast. But, there are hundreds of smaller affiliates and independents that would leap at the chance for this kind of exclusive.
“No, we probably won’t see them from big network affiliates on the East and West Coast. But, there are hundreds of smaller affiliates and independents that would leap at the chance for this kind of exclusive.”
Well, they’ve been released and there is a total blackout on television...O’Keefe himself is asking for help getting the videos out. His “queue up” didn’t work out as he hoped...which is entirely predictable, totalitarian state we live in and all.