[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: Main Studio Debate Gets Heated
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 07:35:17 -0400
On May 26, 2017, at 9:58 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
This has nothing to do with the current FCC or Chairman Pai.
Really Craig? This soon after I posted the Chairman's speech to the NAB, with
talk about localism and ending the local studio rule, you already forgot all
of this?
Really Bert. Stop taking things out of context. The loss of localism in radio
took place immediately after the 1996 telecommunications act, as I noted in
several posts. What Pai is doing now is simply recognizing the reality of what
Congress and the FCC has done with respect to localism over the past two
decades.
This is where Chairman Pai talks about being bullish on "localism, diversity"
of broadcasting, and also at the same time, eliminating the local studio
rule. I pointed out, in that post, the contradiction. I pointed out where
none of his examples of why broadcasting is great had anything to do with
localism. I then also posted an FCC announcement about this same topic, where
they explicitly mention getting rid of the requirement that stations be
capable of producing content (which he didn't mention in the speech to the
NAB).
You tried, but did not point out any contradictions. As I noted, I worked for a
company that ran an automated FM station (no local content) when I graduated
from college in 1970. The 1996 legislation removed Radio ownership caps, and
within a few years, Clear Channel and others were programming stations from
regional operation centers.
The destruction of "localism" in the broadcast radio market was a
fait accompli by the turn of the century,
Even if this is true, you could have waxed about this way back then, you
could also have disagreed with Chairman Pai back then, and ended it. Instead,
you felt obliged to meander left and right, with all manner of tangential and
mostly irrelevant comments:
Chairman Pai was not working for the FCC when all this happened Bert. Talk
about tangents!
https://www.freelists.org/post/opendtv/FCC-Chairman-Pai-to-the-NAB,1
Summary: The debate about eliminating the local studio rule HAS EVERYTHING to
do with this FCC.
OBVIOUSLY BERT! It's called a NPRM - NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING.
END OF THREAD.
THANKFULLY...
Regards
Craig
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