Re: Donna gets heard - and seen! (on Nightline, of course)

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 09:37 AM 5/29/2003, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
>>If each station in an eight-station cluster were required to actually
>>serve its nominal community of license with programming tailored to
>>the specific needs of that community, the available economies of scale
>>would be significantly less.
>
>And without these economies of scale, how many of these stations would 
>have gone dark by now?  That's REALLY serving the public.

Isn't it?  A station that sucks goes off the air, thus providing a benefit 
in one of two ways: either A, someone else will come along and try a new 
idea with it, thus providing greater access to the (so-called) public 
airwaves.  Or B, the station stays dark, the allocation disappears, and 
there's a little less interference to the rest of the dial still in operation.



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