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 Two concerns: the entry looks to be merely using this article as a political soapbox (in which right-wing bias in media is fine, but supposed left-wing bias is not) and it also looks to be completely off-topic, if this trope is about a comical, low-budget, shoestring operation being [[Played For Laughs]], WKRP-style, and not merely a list of every station to have ever gone off the air in the history of broadcasting.
-Yes, broadcasters fail for many reasons. Some were poorly run, some lost their audience to a more-powerful competitor, some fell victim to the siphoning of content away from free OTA TV by pay TV operators. Some were in markets too small to sustain them, or couldn't get a viable network feed. A few fell prey to the Great Recession of 2008-09; in some cases, this and the digital TV transition landed together as a double whammy. Stations which signed on in analogue soon after the turn of the millennium, only to have to go digital, only to get wiped out during the economic recession are one obvious example - although their numbers are limited. Equity Broadcasting (which owned many underpowered UHF terrestrial stations, all fed from a Central Automated Satellite Hub in Little Rock, Arkansas) was one particularly dismal example... although uhftelevision.com records a long history of failed stations from the 1950s and 60s. And then there are the stations which failed due to flawed policy from broadcast regulators.
+Yes, broadcasters fail for many reasons. Some were poorly run, some lost their audience to a more-powerful competitor, some fell victim to the siphoning of content away from free OTA TV by pay TV operators. Some were in markets too small to sustain them, or couldn't get a viable network feed. A few fell prey to the Great Recession of 2008-09; in some cases, this and the digital TV transition landed together as a double whammy. A handful of stations signed on in analogue soon after the turn of the millennium, only to have to go digital by 2009, by which time they were wiped out in the economic recession. Equity Broadcasting (which owned many underpowered UHF terrestrial stations, all fed from a Central Automated Satellite Hub in Little Rock, Arkansas) was one particularly dismal example. Then there are the stations which failed due to flawed policy from broadcast regulators; uhftelevision.com records a long history of failed stations from the 1950s and 60s, for example.
 There's a whole graveyard at [[wikipedia:Category:Defunct broadcasting companies]].