>> guest: well, obviously, if you own a station in in medford, oregon, and you're an nbc affiliate and the potential exists that nbc could simply program around your local stations, you'd be concerned about that. and so networks and affiliates need each other, and my assumption is that nbc does continue to care about its local affiliates and wants that local news station to follow or precede its national news program. and i think that that is in the interest of the peacock and that they'll continue working out an arrangement even if owned by a cable company that will preserve those essential features with what we think of as localism in broadcasting. >> host: we have a minute left, closing question? >> host: my question is what question should i have asked you when you wanted to come here? >> guest: well, hot issue we've been talking the tv and radio side, obviously, the great debate congress has had many times over whether you pay not just the copyright owner of a song, but whether radio stations have to pay the performer as well. historically, congress has always backed off of that b

well, obviously if you own a station in medford, oregon and your nbc affiliate and the potential exists that nbc could simply program around your local station, you could be concerned about that. and so, networks and affiliate meet each other and my assumption is that nbc does continue to care about its local affiliates and ones that local news station to follow or precede its national news program. and i think that that is in the interest of the peacock and that they'll continue working out an arrangement, even if owned by a cable company that will preserve those essential features of what we think of as localism in broadcasting. >> host: a few minutes left. >> my question is always, what is the question i didn't ask you that she wanted to answer? >> guest: we've been talking tv in the radio side obviously is a great debate. the congress has added many times over whether you pay not just the copyright owner of a song or whether the radio stations have to pay a performer as well. historically, congress has always backed off of that because they said the promotional surveys is the equiva