tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335610442011-04-21T19:20:18.178-05:00A blog to gather and analyze current events related to the issue of regulation and consolidation of ownership of broadcast media outlets.TheJobeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02322770894545323298noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33561044.post-1165126513115894552006-12-03T00:13:00.000-06:002006-12-03T00:15:14.386-06:00

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Sinclair Broadcasting Group was founded in 1986 by the four sons of Julian Sinclair Smith, who founded the first UHF station in Baltimore in 1971. In the early 1990s, after the brothers bought controlling interest in the company from their parents, SBG began buying stations. Within a decade of its founding, Sinclair would become the largest commercial broadcasting network not owned by a network.

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From Washington Post, November 29, 2006:In a generational change of local TV news personalities, WRC (Channel 4) has in recent weeks begun eliminating some of its most familiar faces as part of a cost-cutting drive by its owner, NBC Universal. Yesterday, Arch Campbell -- the station's avuncular entertainment reporter/reviewer -- became the latest News4 star to announce he was severing ties with

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From Washington Post, November 28, 2006:The embattled Tribune Co., which has put its 11 newspapers and 25 television stations up for sale, is not ready to consider bids for individual properties, the company said in an e-mail exchange with a Baltimore investor group.Ted Venetoulis, a businessman and former local politician, is leading a consortium of prominent Baltimoreans who want to buy the Sun

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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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From Advertising Age, November 27, 2006:Even though Fox Broadcasting's O.J. special was canceled, it still may have done lasting harm to the broadcast industry. ...The backlash comes at a sensitive time for broadcasters, which have been battling the belief that cross-media ownership gives them too much power -- and some fear the incident gives ammunition to their foes. The Federal

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FCC Public Notice, November 22, 2006:The Commission will be conducting 10 economic studies as part of its review of its mediaownership rules. Each of these studies will be peer reviewed.Included in these are studies on the effect of ownership structure on programming in television and radio, news coverage of cross-owned television stations and newspapers, and a study on how people get news,

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From New York Times, November 17, 2006:Some of the largest broadcasters and publishers are being swept into the arms of private equity firms, which are drawn to the rich cash flows these businesses generate and are undaunted by their slowing growth. The trend could raise new regulatory concerns, however, as some of the big private equity firms start to weave a complex web of cross-ownerships in

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From Washington Post, November 17, 2006:Clear Channel Communications Inc. has agreed to sell the company to a consortium of private-equity firms and plans to shear off more than one-third of its 1,150 radio stations, dismantling a giant that dominated the industry and became the bogyman of media consolidation for the past half-decade.The deal is worth $26.7 billion dollars. The plan to sell

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The Fallout From the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Unintended Consequences and Lessons Learned is the best concise overview of that bill I've come across on the web. I recommend it to all my readers. This piece provides a chance to see the blow-by-blow history of the Telecom Act and how it has effected Americans 10 years later. Check it out.

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From the Denver Post, October 24, 2006:It controls the news you watch, which has become kinder and gentler to government and corporations, while focusing on sex scandals, manhunts, and the big crime story of the day. That's the mantra of media giants, who are more concerned with profits than educating viewers. GE, just like Disney and Time Warner, are monsters with insatiable appetites. They want

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From Reclaim the Media, October 19, 2006:Cities across Washington State will suffer if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) eliminates or further relaxes key limits on media ownership, according to new research examining the impact of potential media mergers in Seattle, Spokane, and Yakima. The study, released by Reclaim the Media in conjunction with the national Media and Democracy

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From PR Newswire, August 9, 2006:A study released today by the Future of Music Coalition (FMC) found that the vast majority of major U.S. cities has experienced both layoffs and lower wage growth within the radio profession, associated with the unprecedented consolidation of radio station ownership over the last decade. The study also shows that the job losses in radio impede federal policy

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Here's a piece from Free Press on October 5, 2006, by a pastor in the United Church of Christ about the difficulty his church had securing a station for spreading his church's message. It says a lot about the challenges consolidation of ownership is bringing to diversity on the airwaves.

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From The Louisiana Weekly, September 25, 2006:As the Federal Communications Commission considers sweeping changes to the nation's media landscape, Free Press released a new report last week on female and minority media ownership that shows the consequences of further consolidation. The new study, "Out of the Picture," is the first complete assessment and analysis of female and minority

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From the Associated Press, October 4, 2006:The battle over media consolidation began with hundreds of people, including actors, writers and musicians, imploring the Federal Communications Commission to prevent media conglomerates from growing even bigger.Two FCC public hearings on the topic Tuesday resembled baseball playoff games with attendees whooping, clapping wildly and even booing as the

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From the Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2006:E.W. Scripps Co. agreed to sell its five TV stations affiliated with theShop at Home network to Multicultural Television Broadcasting LLC for $170million....The stations are WMFP-TV in Boston; WOAC-TV in Cleveland; WRAY-TV inRaleigh-Durham, N.C.; WSAH-TV in Bridgeport, Conn.; and KCNS-TV in SanFrancisco.E.W. Scripps Co. still owns 10 TV stations

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From the Associated Press, September 14, 2006:The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says....The report, written by two economists in the FCC's Media Bureau, analyzed a database of 4,078 individual news stories broadcast

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From United Press International:NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The New York Times Co. will sell its Broadcast Media Group, which includes nine network-affiliated television stations and theirrelated properties."We believe a divestiture would allow us to sharpen our focus on developing our newspaper and rapidly growing digital businesses, and the synergies between them, thereby increasing the value

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Welcome to Nobles Weekly. This blog will be used to recap important developments in the regulation of ownership of broadcast media outlets and offer analysis and opinion of note.This week will be provided a brief history of this topic as well as analysis of recent events such as the National Association of Broadcasters endorsing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a deregulation advocate, for renomination

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