Noticed this from President Trump…hmm?
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Don’t lift the broadcast tv caps?
- Thread starter Loverofradio
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Umm wait what does he mean here and how is Comcast and Disney expanding exactly? If anything they are currently protecting their apps like Peacock, Hulu/Disney+ apps. Also how are Disney and Comcast left wing exactly?
Also Comcast is in the process of getting the Versant spinoff approved and finalized.
It’s all about the president controlling the Pentagon and White House press pools with ones that agree with him. Isn’t the lift the ownership caps ones Chairman Carr in the process of doing to get the Nexstar/Tegna deal and the Sinclair/EW Scripps deal approved in the name of boosting attention to ATSC 3.0?
Also Comcast is in the process of getting the Versant spinoff approved and finalized.
It’s all about the president controlling the Pentagon and White House press pools with ones that agree with him. Isn’t the lift the ownership caps ones Chairman Carr in the process of doing to get the Nexstar/Tegna deal and the Sinclair/EW Scripps deal approved in the name of boosting attention to ATSC 3.0?
Trump Joins the 39% Fight, Opposes FCC Lifting TV Cap If It Helps 'Radical Left Networks' Like ABC, NBC
NAB Issues Statement Backing FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's Effort to Empower Local Stations, Claims Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy Is Running 'Misleading Campaign' to Keep TV Stations Pinned Down by 39% Cap
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Once again, he doesn't understand the difference between networks and stations. The ownership caps have nothing to do with networks. The FCC doesn't license or regulate networks. He keeps thinking they do. The networks aren't interested in buying more TV stations. Conservative-leaning groups such as Sinclair want to buy more stations. Sinclair & Nexstar are kissing Carr's butt so he'll approve their station deals.
For 35 years, the dems have fought to retain the current caps. For 35 years conservative repubs from Kevin Martin to Agit Pai have sought to loosen ownership caps. The president simply doesn't understand the subject at all. As my mama once said, it's better to be silent and thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Before he sends these tweets he needs to talk to his own people. Ask Carr first. Don't just repeat what Ruddy says.
For 35 years, the dems have fought to retain the current caps. For 35 years conservative repubs from Kevin Martin to Agit Pai have sought to loosen ownership caps. The president simply doesn't understand the subject at all. As my mama once said, it's better to be silent and thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Before he sends these tweets he needs to talk to his own people. Ask Carr first. Don't just repeat what Ruddy says.
while the idea of maintaining the cap limits is good idea, but this president want to do it in his own "extremist ways" to stop the "Liberal Left" from owning more media when in reality, it's "conservative right" media companies like Sinclair & Nexstar that wants it gone so they can buy out many TV stations in many areas.
True and every time we hear about this we end up wondering where this is going.
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Every time we hear the White House say "The Left" in the middle of a rant it has to be news articles Trump does not want seen and yes it even includes articles from Fox News when they have reports the White House don't want to here.
My interpretation is different. Rather than trying to explain the difference between a network and its affiliates, the administration is simply "going after the networks" with the understanding that the networks themselves know what is threatened. The average American does not know what is and what is not regulated by the FCC, but both the current administration and the webs themselves know what is being threatened.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And that is something that even his supporters need to be educated about.
The first thing any dictatorship government does is seize control of the media. History proves that. It happens every single time.
And even those who may agree with the dictator will have opinions and views that are silenced in favor of their leader. The only difference between a dictatorship and the authoritarian government George Orwell depicted in 1984 is the rewriting of history and purging of inconvenient facts that stand in the way of what they want the people to believe. We have already seen hints of that with the current administration but (thank god) they do not have the ability to erase everything they do not agree with.
Trump and those members of his party who hold office are under the delusion that if only they can control the media they can get away with whatever they want. What they fail to understand is that their opponents both outnumber them and are visible and vocal.
And that is why the simplistic thought process of the idiot-in-chief sort of works. There are very, very few people outside of our industry who know what the actual structure is, and I believe that more than half of them do think the networks own all of the affiliates. The display of the Nexstar or Sinclair logo at the end of the evening news is meaningless to them (or they think it's some kind of commercial).
In Albuquerque, where it is common knowledge that I consult a station group which owns radio stations throughout the state (and program at least one of the stations in the ABQ cluster), the owner has taken to running a 60-second ad several times a day reminding people that freedom of speech is a constitutional right and not just "the law of the land". You would never see Sinclair running such an ad.
The president is supporting Chris Ruddy. Ruddy doesn't know what he's talking about. Read what Ruddy says:
Nexstar isn't liberal. Neither is NewsNation. But they are a competitor to Newsmax. That's why Ruddy opposes them. So this is about Ruddy's selfish self interest.
NexStar's NewsNation is just another right-wing cable network
When Nexstar launched NewsNation in 2021, it promised “fact-based and unbiased news.” Instead customers got another right-wing cable news network. NewsNation’s evening opinion shows contain the same sort of racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant hate as other right-wing networks. While Leland...
Nexstar is the company that dropped Jimmy Kimmel. They are NOT liberal. Ruddy is smoking crack. Read Variety's take:
Trump Opposes FCC Raising 39% TV Ownership Cap if It Would ‘Enlarge’ ‘Fake News Networks’ Like ABC, NBC — but It Wouldn’t Do That
President Donald Trump weighed in on the issue of the FCC's potential move to raise or eliminate the current 39% cap on local TV station owners -- saying he opposes it if the result would be an "expansion of the fake news networks," citing ABC News and NBC News specifically.
variety.com
Tegna shares dropped 5% after the president's tweet.
Nexstar is now trying to explain who they are to the dumbest president since Harding:
www.poynter.org
Nexstar is now trying to explain who they are to the dumbest president since Harding:
‘We are the anti-fake news.’ Nexstar appeals to Trump while seeking a merger with Tegna - Poynter
The broadcaster is pressing the FCC to fast-track a $6.2B deal that would expand its reach to more than half of US households
www.poynter.org
True too even in the CPB recissions aka “Defund NPR and PBS” it’s tied to free speech one way or another. In this case we have to deal with the likelihood that WETA-TV and WGBH-TV would have their licenses questioned over PBS Newshour and Frontline segments the White House does not want to hear. It’s all about political interference with local affiliate licenses and the GM’s have to consult their organizations legal team over what to do when chairman Carr and White House questions their license for political reasons.
The idea that TV and radio networks could have their license revoked came from stories like this when the previous Philippine leader decided to revoke the network license of a TV and radio network in the Philippines.
FACT CHECK: Duterte admits using ‘presidential powers’ vs ABS-CBN franchise renewal, contradicting previous neutral stance
Three days before stepping down, President Rodrigo Duterte admitted to using his powers as chief executive to turn lawmakers against ABS-CBN. This was contrary to earlier claims that he did not interfere in the non-renewal of the broadcasting network’s legislative franchise.
verafiles.org
Lawmakers vote to shut down Philippines' largest TV network
Philippine lawmakers have voted to reject the license renewal of the country’s largest TV network, shutting down a major news provider that had been repeatedly threatened by the president over its critical coverage.
apnews.com
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Yep. The doofus-in-chief doesn't get that different countries have different regulatory structures for media.
I don't know about that. While this U.S. president is a definite dictator wannabe, it's very clear from reports dating back to his first administration that the CIA had to "dumb down" reports about international happening so that he could understand their significance. What this president usually does (and The BigA is correct here) is that he reads or hears some commentary that he agrees with and then tries to put that commentary into action. It is no accident that so many people who were formerly Fox News commentators are now part of this administration, and they are there for the same reason as in the previous sentence.
He also doesn't realize that any possible rules that may target NBC and ABC will also target Fox.
But the real problem is that both networks and local stations are losing audience in large numbers to streaming, which is unregulated.
The NAB has responded to all this, pointing out why Newsmax is saying this:
The Desperation of National Cap Objectors - NAB Blog
We’re now at the predictable moment in a Washington fight when the losing side abandons policy arguments and retreats to the last refuge of the desperate: “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway, the agency doesn’t have the authority to do this.” In fairness, it’s a classic, time-honored move. When...
www.blog.nab.org
Why does the NAB want this so bad? They’re not controlled by the government. Jobs are going to be lost by merger. I never understood the argument that local tv stations are “losing out” to big techThe NAB has responded to all this, pointing out why Newsmax is saying this:
The Desperation of National Cap Objectors - NAB Blog
We’re now at the predictable moment in a Washington fight when the losing side abandons policy arguments and retreats to the last refuge of the desperate: “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway, the agency doesn’t have the authority to do this.” In fairness, it’s a classic, time-honored move. When...www.blog.nab.org
The NAB represents Nexstar, Sinclair, and all the big station owners. That's really all you need to know.
Trump Throws Wrench Into FCC’s Ownership Review After Newsmax Critique.
President Trump is signaling his opposition to a portion of the FCC’s proposed media ownership rewrite, saying he’d “not be happy” with moves that let “radical left networks enlarge.” Trump’s
I heard about ATSC 3.0 as the reason why groups like Nexstar and Sinclair lobby for lifting ownership caps. NAB had some discussions of ATSC 3.0 at one point. I get what you mean the O&Os of the networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox are protected by their respective networks app. For Nexstsr and Sinclair who knows where this is going. What could Sinclair and Nexstar have done to make their places the top destinations outside of local news was yet to be seen beyond the ATSC 3.0 discussions.
NAB is tricking people into supporting lifting the ownership cap under the ruse of it having something to do with "keeping football on free TV":
The fact is that it's not up to the public to decide. It's up to two people who are the majority at the FCC.