[opendtv] Re: B&C: Democrats Seek to Eliminate UHF Discount
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:00:17 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
This is ENTIRELY consistent Bert. It is called POLITICS.
If our Chairman Pai doesn't want to come across as inconsistent and
hypocritical, the best course of action would be to deregulate. Which means,
abolish the UHF discount AND abolish the national cap. But keep the local caps,
because most reasonable people can see that a monopoly on local news and
commentary outlets is not a good idea. It's not good form to be too excessively
stuck in your dogmatic formula-think.
Who cares? The vast majority of homes do not use antennas.
For now, it's about 20% and rising. Long term, sure. In any case, whatever the
OTA experience might be, this legacy issue about UHF reception continues to
create a thoroughly artificial bias, caused by regulation and nothing else, on
station ownership. According to these articles, that purely artificial bias,
caused by regulation and nothing else, today seems to be favoring a
conservative station group. So today's FCC likes to pretend that this purely
artificial bias, caused only be regulation and nothing else, somehow does not
need to be deregulated. In spite of the dogmatic mantra about deregulating
everything. So, it matters.
Bert
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