California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss the launch of the new conservative outlet, California’s media imbalance and a controversial San Francisco program that spent millions giving alcohol to homeless residents.

America’s local television stations do something at which the coastal media class loves to sneer but upon which ordinary families rely every day: They cover school board fights, city hall scandals, high school championships, church fish fries, snow storm and tornado warnings and the first minutes of a crisis when cell networks clog and rumors flood social media.

So why does Washington still treat these hometown institutions like it is 1941?

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing on March 31, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Back then, the federal government imposed a national limit on how many local TV stations one company could own. Decades later, that restriction has morphed into today’s "national audience reach" cap, a rule prohibiting any broadcast station group from owning stations that reach more than 39% of America’s TV households.

These restrictions, however, don’t affect cable networks, satellite networks, national networks or streaming giants. This........

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