...translator from a nearby market, as Bakersfield, CA has with a retransmitter for Fresno's KVPT. There's a risk of loss of local voices here, but if the tradeoff is free network programs it may be worth it. One think I hope we don't see any more of is big PBS stations going out and snapping...
...up nearby or overlapping stations, as NYC's WNET has done with the Long Island PBS station (WLIW) and New Jersey's statewide system, NJN (now NJ PBS). Both were the only sources of local news, with NJN also the only free-to-air service that covered the entire state, the rest of the state is...
...divided between the NYC and Philadelphia markets. Long Island now has no free-to-air local TV news at all. NJ PBS still has a local news program, so there's that, at least.