I don't know that there is necessarily a larger agenda at work in this and I don't want to feed into a conspiracy theory, but there's been some talk about that here in Oklahoma City. Like 3 of the 4 main networks who broadcast local news were taken over by companies from out of the area, which are allegedly notoriously liberal. Oklahoma as a whole is generally known as a "conservative" state, but I'll be curious to see in 5 years of the contrast in how the news is reported. There have been some of the same people on all of those channels for over 20 years. My guess is that they won't be there 5 years from now. I don't watch them anyways though.