Re: Ownership Consolidation

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 09:43 AM 5/28/2003, Scott Fybush wrote:
>Some thoughts from NERW on the upcoming rulings are here: 
>http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html#rant
>s

Scott - your rant didn't really address the big wild card (in radio at 
least) in all this consolidation mess: public radio.   Public radio...while 
the term "public" is obviously used pretty loosely...by and large still 
holds dear all the traditions of radio we like to think were true "back in 
the day", whether they really were or not.   Most public radio outlets are, 
at biggest, networks limited to their state.  Most major & medium cities 
have at least one major public radio outlet...several have two or three.

Frankly, I don't care too much about media consolidation per se, although I 
am convinced that another round will no doubt lead to further staff cuts 
and therefore even more of my friends will be out on the street again.  But 
from a programming standpoint, I imagine all it will do is drive people 
away from commercial radio and TV even more...and they'll either end up 
away from radio/TV entirely (Boo!) or they'll end up listening to public 
radio (Yay!)



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