However, strange as it seems, they say they will not reduce in-house production at all. Networks can't help stations financially, but should help them continue to broadcast for at least a year. But if the situation in the country doesn't improve, it's difficult for me to predict what will happen. Theoretically, networks can pay stations for transmission of their signal, but it's not clear where they would get the money for this. All networks dream of paying stations network compensation, but I don't know of any station currently capable of this.
Stations earn all their remaining money on the local advertising market.
The only source of financing that doesn't exist for foreign networks is political money. Information on this is hard to come by. It's difficult for me to judge what percentage of stations in our country exist completely on advertising revenues, and which stations are supported by financial and political groups. If financing from these groups remains in place, then it will be markedly easier for these stations to survive than for those which subsist only on advertising revenues. Time will tell who is dependent on whom.