Video appears to show an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with her two young children.
In the US, local news has historically been presented via an “affiliate” model, in which a local company is allowed to air their own programming in a particular region in exchange for a fee. So when you turn to the channel for NBC in los Angeles on the TV, it’s from the national NBC most of the time but for local news it will switch to NBC Los Angeles, which is usually a different company. I would imagine NBC Los Angeles was originally an entirely different company than NBC national that later got bought by them.
In case anyone gets suspicious like I was, the domain name seemed… odd to me. I expected something more like losangeles.nbc.com or something.
But I did a WHOIS lookup and confirmed the company that registered it is NBCUniversal, which is the legal name of the company.
I also saw KTLA reporting this, but I didn’t bother to check them. So yeah, seems like real news, for better or worse.
I hate that we need to check these things now on top of all the shit going down
In the US, local news has historically been presented via an “affiliate” model, in which a local company is allowed to air their own programming in a particular region in exchange for a fee. So when you turn to the channel for NBC in los Angeles on the TV, it’s from the national NBC most of the time but for local news it will switch to NBC Los Angeles, which is usually a different company. I would imagine NBC Los Angeles was originally an entirely different company than NBC national that later got bought by them.
Ohh, very cool. I learned a thing. Thank you for sharing!