[opendtv] Re: Broadcasters, Cable Spar over Retrans

  • From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:11:48 -0400



On 6/2/2011 7:58 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:

Broadcasters have had a free ride in the spectrum for six decades or more.


Craig, you keep saying this again and again. You know this is not true.
You worked the same place I did in the early 1970s, a station that got it's license ONLY by committing to deliver a large number of public service programs for which they got NO revenue whatever.
In fact, the the words in the FCC rules state that stations must "operate in the public interest, necessity and convenience."
Stations have lost their licenses for failing to meet their public service commitments.
This is just one example of the 'costs' paid to the government by all FCC licensed radio and television broadcasters. 

Being a broadcaster is not having a 'free' ride in any sense of the word.

Cliff




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