Michael Harney wrote:
> My thought on the whole "companies owning too many stations" thing is: Who
> cares? First off it will expand diversity, not limit it, because stations
> owned by the same company are going to target different demographics so that
> the stations are not competing with one another. What would be the point?
> Take USA and Sci-fi channel, both owned by the same parent company. There
> is a small degree of overlap, but only where the genres overlap. USA is
> primaily suspense and action stuff while Sci-fi is... well Sci-Fi. As long
> as there are enough channels for local interest, public access, etc. (and
> come on now, with digital cable and satelite service going up everywhere in
> the USA, we are in no danger of running out of channels), then what does it
> matter if one company ownes a bucket-full of stations in a varitable sea of
> stations.
Unless you get the same bunch of people clueless about the different
demographics making all the programming decisions....
Julia
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