"It's the programming, stupid!"

[A Joseph Ross]

On 5/19/2012 11:38 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:

> The "Report on Chain Broadcasting" in 1941 and its subsequent 
> regulatory fallout changed that in a big way, severely limiting the 
> amount of control networks could exert over affiliates and ending 
> those LMA arrangements.

It's an interesting question whether this was a factor in the demise of 
old-style network radio in the 1950s when increasingly local stations 
were refusing to carry network programs.

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