Re:Re:Wired.com on Reversing Consolidation

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

Plus in 8 of the top 10 markets Fox owned stations are VHF only WFLD 
Chicago and WFXT are UHF. That stems from Murdoch getting the old 
Metromedia and Storer stations.

Unloading WCVB to Hearst was one of his greatest moves as it really got 
him the other Metromedia stations at Bld 19 prices


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:50AM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<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