Michael Harney wrote:The Fifth Estate used to help keep government and industry honest. They have been effectively co-opted.
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....
Doug
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