why media consolidation is NOT a good thing

[Dan Billings]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@psu.edu>
To: "'SteveOrdinetz'" <steveord@bit-net.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: why media consolidation is NOT a good thing


> I think the point Donna was making was that one person (or, in this case,
> one company) can make a decision that affects a greater number of viewers
in
> many more far-flung markets without any local input.

But the networks make decisions that effect a greater number of viewers than
any station group.

ABC deciding what everyone is every market should watch is fine but Sinclair
deciding what people shouldn't watch in some markets is not?  I don't get
it.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine