The issue is FCC license on the airwaves. All McCain is doing is removing it to the locals. I say let the FCC relinquish those rights to broadcast companies to locals. Customers will decide who stays and who goes. This is based on Cloud tv viewing from
Aereo If the CBS pulls from the airwaves then anyone should be able to broadcast in the Air on that channel. Also would not sports teams that are local be braced to make more revenue if the FCC does not have rules they can prohibit view local games. Corrupt politician at the local level are immune at this point but States and local commissioners need more visibility.
The issue is that the over the air broadcast networks are failing.
In ten years there will be two or three local channels in the big cities. In the bottom 200 markets you will be lucky to have anything over the air.