Current Events > Remember when Sinclair bought up a ton of locastations? the next phase has begun

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http://www.routefifty.com/tech-data/2017/10/FCC-local-news-requirement/142029/

Over the last six months, the Federal Communications Commission has eliminated requirements that have kept local news broadcasting a mainstay of local television, culminating with a vote on Tuesday that removed a requirement for local broadcasters to maintain newsrooms in the communities they serve. The outcome will likely be the elimination of many American communities primary lens for understanding the impact of local politics and policies, as well as a primary source of guidance when emergencies occur.

Until today, the so-called main studio rule required each AM, FM, and television broadcast station to maintain a main studio located in or near its community of license to ensure stations would be accessible and responsive to their communities, according to the FCC. In Tuesdays 3-to-2 party line vote, the FCC chose to eliminate that rule two years shy of its 80th birthday.

Without the main studio rule, national corporations that own most local television broadcast stationsNBC Universal, Tribune Media and Sinclair Broadcast Groupcan eliminate the overhead costs of a local studio and produce programming out of their main offices in New York, Chicago, and the Baltimore suburbs, respectively.

The action follows a separate FCC action in April that removed a barrier to the approval of a merger of Tribune and Sinclair, which would put the local television news of 70 percent of U.S. households in the hands of one company. Mignon Clyburn, a Democratic FCC commissioner that voted against the elimination of the rule, cited a recent Washington Post op-ed by Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media, who argued that this change clears the so local news production could be moved to places such as New York and Washington as the big networks buy up local stations.
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bump because it is kind of a big deal
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This seems like the kind of thing that would be discussed in the future when talking about where shit went wrong like the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine
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So does this mean the end of pointless "on location" reports?

TheoryzC posted...

This seems like the kind of thing that would be discussed in the future when talking about where shit went wrong like the elimination of the Fairness Doctrine

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locastations
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The giant pile of crap just keeps on growing...

Drain! The! Swamp!
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Yay politicians!
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