FCC Media Ownership Policies Make Television’s “Vast Wasteland” Even Vaster, Creative Voices Tells Commission

From The Center for Creative Voices in Media, October 23, 2006:

Misguided FCC media ownership policies harm competition, diversity of viewpoints, and localism – the Commission’s key policy goals in regulating media ownership – and prevent the American public from receiving better broadcast television, the Center for Creative Voices in Media told the Commission in comments filed today.

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General Electric’s recent announcement that it would reduce or eliminate scripted programming on its NBC network in the 8-9 p.m. hour of primetime is particularly illustrative of the unintended harmful consequences of FCC policy changes that have had the practical effect of eliminating independently-produced programming from the public’s airwaves.