OHIOshooter77
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Yo bros and sisters... what do you think of the new media ownership laws going through the FCC right now? Do you think it will spell doom for our industry or help it out? When comparing it to the radio side i become scared because of what clear channel has done to consoldate all their tallent to a few studios and laid off the rest. Do you think the same thing will happen in the TV world and TV news? Example...Sinclair brodcasting is centralizing all its newscast from one Studio in Maryland. It is working so far...local stations produce 10 min segement news casts then switch over to the national feed. If they own more stations they may lay off more people and dowsize news operations across the nation. Providing more money for the shareholders but maybe producing less quality of a product at a local level. I think the station emploies will suffer because of a lack of local control of the product and so will the viewers. Huge coporatations care about the bottom line. Just my ramblings about the TV world. I think the new fcc decision will be a huge mistake because it will cause companies to grow to huge and will not return station revenue back to the station to make it better...obviously the money will go to the shareholders. Not a good idea for the little guy, whom the station is also responsible for providing public service in exchange for a free broadcasting license.