As FCC Ownership Rules Loosen, Two Divergent Futures Emerge For Local TV Stations — TVREV
not all local stations are created equal, and the paths ahead for network-owned stations and independently owned affiliates couldn’t be more different.| TVREV
If Brendan Carr’s vision prevails, local TV risks becoming both homogenized and politicized — consolidated into a few large conglomerates, and pressured to avoid programming that might displease those in power.| TVREV
The real question is whether broadcast ownership rules written for a world of media scarcity can still make sense in a world of communications abundance.| TVREV
“KidVid” rules were born of good intentions — to ensure children weren’t shortchanged by profit-driven commercial broadcasters. But three decades later, they’ve morphed into an outsourced compliance exercise dominated by a single producer.| TVREV
not all local stations are created equal, and the paths ahead for network-owned stations and independently owned affiliates couldn’t be more different.| TVREV
The public interest requires nothing less than the full realization of ATSC 3.0's commercial television potential before spectrum is diverted to enterprise applications.| TVREV
