{"id":3384,"date":"2003-10-28T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/28\/broadcast-flag-and-ownership-rules\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T11:33:15","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T15:33:15","slug":"broadcast-flag-and-ownership-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/10\/28\/broadcast-flag-and-ownership-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast Flag and Ownership Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a453'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Awhile ago, I <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2003\/03\/04#a53\">suggested<\/A> that&nbsp;(among many other reasons) mandating the broadcast flag would be unwise because spectrum policy is currently in flux.&nbsp; Any tech mandate based on incumbent broadcasters&#8217; wishes&nbsp;will necessarily ignore the broadcasters of the future.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It occurred to me that the FCC&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/media\/conglomeration\/fcc_report_06-02.html\">ownership rule making<\/A>&nbsp;also provides a significant argument against the flag.&nbsp; Chairman Powell repeatedly asserted that over the air televsion is merely one small part in a large, competitive media market.&nbsp; It has to compete with print, radio, and the Internet.&nbsp; Well, if&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;such an insignificant industry, then why should it get to determine policies for the entire tech industry? I&#8217;m not necessarily saying that I agree with the ownership rule changes; rather, I&#8217;m saying that the FCC&nbsp;has already stated that broadcast TV shouldn&#8217;t be treated specially.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile ago, I suggested that&nbsp;(among many other reasons) mandating the broadcast flag would be unwise because spectrum policy is currently in flux.&nbsp; Any tech mandate based on incumbent broadcasters&#8217; wishes&nbsp;will necessarily ignore the broadcasters of the future. It occurred to me that the FCC&#8217;s ownership rule making&nbsp;also provides a significant argument against the flag.&nbsp; Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}