Duopoly dilemma: Two stations, two unions

While the ability to merge two TV stations' news operations - and thus save money - has been a driving factor behind duopolies, some markets are running into a big hurdle: labor unions. Fox Station Group duopolies in Los Angeles and New York have yet to merge their newscasts in those markets because employees at the stations have contracts with different unions. However, unions will not be a huge problem in every market where there are now duopolies. Minneapolis, Dallas and Houston are not heavily unionized, and the stations there have met little or no resistance.