Who owns the airwaves?

[Matt1]

This is a topic that should be important to every American citizen. In a few days the FCC is gong to make some sweeping deregulations, allowing large multinational corporations to control even more of the media then they already do. Everyone from the NRA to the ACLU, seems to oppose this decision.

Read about it here and Sign the petetion (http://www.commoncause.org/action/fcc.htm)

Thank you.

[LeonardoLeonardo]

This is NOT a board to get people to join your stupid protests. This is a board for entertainment and movies. Pretty soon we're gonna get little whiny pro-life activists in here! DAMN!

[Zens_7s]

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Yes, it is a board for entertainment and movies. Tell me LeonardoLeonardo, what government body do you think oversees the content and control of airwaves for radio, television, wire, satellite and cable? Uh - The FCC? Ding, Ding - we have a winner!

Maybe if you have read Matt's post, or had not slept through government class, you would realize that the FCC has control over entertainment we do care about. Comparing the FCC to Pro-Life activists is like comparing apples to Jack Daniels.

Color me whiney, but I do not want the FCC to aid in further homogenizing the airwaves so we can turn into one big Good Avril Charlotte Lavine nation. I am glad Matt made his post. Think before you rip.

[johnbamforth]

oh man whats going on here an intelligent convo I must be in the wrong place

[Robbo_the_Hood]

snitchie bitchies. There, did I dumb it down enough?

[Matt1]

Yeah, what Zen said. Much like Mr. T, I will now pity you for the foo that you are. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Seriously, I only posted it here because I thought it did relate to the world of entertainment. There are plenty of other worthy causes I support, but I don't post about them or even discuss them here. I don't want to be divisive, but I thought this was a cause that we could all pretty much agree on.

And woah, I am now a member apparently. Sweet.

[JIM]

My friends and family hate it when I get started on topics like these. FCC are a bunch of paid-off pawns.
Radio was'nt doing all that great, then the laws changed.
Mega-corps like ClearOne, Westwood one/Infinity networks, and all the rest gobbled up most of the stations! Now "look" at what's happened, a once great medium is a sad, sad shell of it's former self. From city to city the programming is the same old, bland [censored].
Our voices will not be heard on this one. /forums/images/icons/mad.gif
Now, everything is at stake. I see a day when Microsoft will be "King of all media"... Maybe Apple? /forums/images/icons/smirk.gif

P.S.- If it goes our way, I'll have some hope for the human race.

[Ryall]

Yeah, it was good of you to post that here, man.

[DarthMaulRat]

The votes are in, its a defeat for diversity, intellegence, and all the things media was once intended for.

From a newsbrief at imdb.com
Under the new rules, a TV broadcaster will be able to own TV stations that can reach 45 percent of U.S. households. (The previous limit had been 35 percent.) In markets with nine or more TV stations, the ban on joint ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station was lifted. Rules limiting the number of stations one company can own in a single market were also eased, allowing a single company to own as many as three stations in the country's largest markets.

I hope you all enjoy reading the Fox News Channel paper. Nothing us 'hippies' were ever worried about.

[Dave]

I'm not so much worried about reading the "fox news"paper as i am concerned about losing the local voice on TV. When the FCC deregulated radio, the corps. bought stations fired the local crews and started running them all from one location. I do not want that to happen with TV. Anyway this still has to go before congress so Call or write your Senator or Rep. and tell them how you feel.

[DangerSeeker]

Amen, brother! We'll have one corporation telling us 45% of the news, another telling us the other 45%, and how many of them will allow an unpopular agenda to hit the airwaves, or any criticism to reach the masses?

Did anyone see the list of songs ClearChannel banned post Sept 11 because they may be seen as inappropriate? While I'm against any bans, I can sort of see "Leaving on a Jet Plane." "Give Peace a Chance" was banned.

This is a critical point in the legitimacy of our media. By rights of the constitution it can't be silenced, so I wonder if the goal is to simply allow friendly corporations to control it, thus eliminating the problem. Luckily we have the internet, not so much for reliable information all the time, but for at least finding media that won't play elsewhere.

[Tongue]

I used to work for a Hospital Radio Station and they had a huge list of songs we couldn't play like Disco Inferno and I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Has Gone, we used to cater for the local Burns Uniot and Eye Infirmary but the list was endless. lol sometimes we used to see what we could get away with.

[Tongue]

I was sacked by the way. Quickly.

[DangerSeeker]

Was it the Dead Milkmen?

"You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I were to say to you
I didn't set your house on fire
But it's just the way I am
You'll have to take it for a fact
Life can really burn you up
When you're a pyromaniac

If you love somebody
Better set them on fire"

[psychofiend]

I think despite everything that psychotic red neck Ted Turner owns everything that we watch in some way, therefore lets not sell anything more to him no matter how much filthy money he offers.

[Dave]

Actually Ted doesn't own anything anymore, He sold out to Time Warner which intern sold out to AOL, Leaving Ted without even his beloved Atlanta Braves or even the Superstation WTBS Atlanta. From what i hear, he left his VP of whatever in TimeWarner/AOL in frustration that the company was running his old networks into [censored].