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* The [[Executive Meddling|station's management]] may be dishonest, or actively harming the operation in some manner. Maybe they're alcoholics. Maybe they're mentally ill. Maybe they're using the station's finances to launder mob cash, or are openly boasting that the station accepts payola. Somehow, the staff tries to stay on the air and beneath the radar of the national broadcast regulator even though the entire operation is too dysfunctional to be viable.
* The station may be on the air just to keep the licence active, or so that the money it loses can be written off against taxable income from some unrelated venture. For local cable access television channels, the content has to exist as a condition of the parent CATV operator's licence, but the owner likely does not care that no one is watching.
* The station is badly short-staffed, either on a permanent basis (due to lack of funds) or temporarily (it's in a mountain community and none of the regular announcers made it in through an exceptionally-harsh blizzard, so the lone rookie to arrive
* The station is staffed by people who are simply incompetent.
* Some combination of any (or ''all'') of the above.
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