Re: FCC (was: Re: clear channel buys amfm)

[hopfgapr@sprynet.com]

The Marketplace! either a frequency would be so crowded as to be rendered useless to all, then free up, going back and forth over the years (hmmm..just like the economy as a whole).

In effect, with no FCC, no regs, there would be no such thing as a PIRATE station!

(I think the FCC has a function for things like Police/Fire/Airlines, and controlling those frequency allotments, but not neccesarily comercial broadcast bands).

-Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH 


 ---- On Oct  7 Sven Weil <sven@lily.org> wrote: 
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> So if the FCC is disbanded...who will shut down the pirate stations?
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> Sven F. Weil
> e-mail: sven@lily.org
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> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Donna Halper wrote:
> >  Further, various politicians
> (mostly 
> > Republicans-- sorry Dan B.) have told Mr Kennard that if he persists in 
> > advocating for a weakening of the Telecom Act of 1996, they will vote to 
> > disband the FCC.  This could all become a very interesting power struggle...
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