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bluestateboomer

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11. Bad for workers too.

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Thu Apr 1, 2021, 01:42 PM

Apr 2021

Before ownership consolidation, the broadcast industry supported a whole population of workers. Both talent and technicians were employed at local outlets. Now programming is centralized and an engineer is responsible for multiple transmitters. Got degree in Radio-TV. Almost everything we learned about rules and regs designed to diversify ownership and content have been thrown out.

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U.S. Supreme Court lets FCC loosen media ownership rules [View all] Jose Garcia Apr 2021 OP

Unanimous. Ominous. empedocles Apr 2021 #1

How quaint....... turbinetree Apr 2021 #2

Every justice voted for it jimfields33 Apr 2021 #5

they aren't voting for the regulation dsc Apr 2021 #7

Ship sailed about 2003 bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #3

Sinclair gets to gobble up more local media DBoon Apr 2021 #4

must have been decided on the false claim that corporations are people. nt yaesu Apr 2021 #6

Oh no. ananda Apr 2021 #8

Good God. The 1996 TelCom Act made it possible to own up to 8 radio stations in a single market. rsdsharp Apr 2021 #9

'Writing for the Supreme Court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the FCC made a reasonable judgment elleng Apr 2021 #10

Bad for workers too. bluestateboomer Apr 2021 #11