Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:25:15 -0500, "Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com> said:

> but at first glance Fox Television Stations appears to reach more than 
> the 35% limit of viewers

For the purposes of this analysis, the FCC pretends that UHF stations
have half the reach of VHF stations.  (Might have been true once, but
with 70% of households on cable it sure as hell isn't now.)  Also,
overlapping viewers don't count -- so, for example, Murdoch's VHF
duopoly in NYC only counts as one NYC metro's worth of households.

I actually support some sort of limit in this regard, but the way it
is currently defined is pretty clearly bogus.

-GAWollman