Good for him.
Trumps threatens to challenge NBC's broadcasting license
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right now its not far off
I brought this up on another site, but there is 2 issues at hand with this.
The FCC license is only to broadcast on Over The Air antennas. It wouldn't affect any stations on cable as those are private networks and not under FCC jurisdiction. Which is why he hasn't said anything like this towards CNN. NBC owns 12 stations, all but one of them is on Cable, your local NBC.
Lets say Trump was able to get their license taken away. The worst that would happen is NBC moves their station to Cable, Satellite, and Web (Hulu, their own app, Netflix, Sling, Playstation Vue, Youtube TV, etc). Only 19% of households watch TV via OTA antenna and most of them subscribe to web services.
Also we have to take into account that it only affects NBC broadcast license, and they only have stations in 12 markets. If you are in Detroit it is an affiliate station, which is owned by Graham Media, which has it's own FCC license, which would not be affected by NBC loosing there license. So all they would have to do is sell off those 12 stations to another company that acquires an FCC license of its own.
Here is where it could get a little fucked up though. Lets say Trumps administration has the wherewithal to think of this and they actually do go after not just NBC but all of there affiliates. NBC folds all of the stations nation wide and goes all cable. It will be a blow but they will will survive. What do they do with all of those broadcast stations and radio spectrum?
With the loss of there FCC license it would all be worthless to them. So they would probably sell them, and there is a bidder out there that would probably put up a large chunk of money to acquire all the broadcast stations from one of the big 4 broadcasts networks...
and now...
this.
Sinclair networks. if you think Fox News is bad. They are much worse. They are the already embodiment of Trump News Network, but instead of dominating cable news, they are coming to dominate your local news and their mission is to be to the right of Fox News.
The FCC license is only to broadcast on Over The Air antennas. It wouldn't affect any stations on cable as those are private networks and not under FCC jurisdiction. Which is why he hasn't said anything like this towards CNN. NBC owns 12 stations, all but one of them is on Cable, your local NBC.
Lets say Trump was able to get their license taken away. The worst that would happen is NBC moves their station to Cable, Satellite, and Web (Hulu, their own app, Netflix, Sling, Playstation Vue, Youtube TV, etc). Only 19% of households watch TV via OTA antenna and most of them subscribe to web services.
Also we have to take into account that it only affects NBC broadcast license, and they only have stations in 12 markets. If you are in Detroit it is an affiliate station, which is owned by Graham Media, which has it's own FCC license, which would not be affected by NBC loosing there license. So all they would have to do is sell off those 12 stations to another company that acquires an FCC license of its own.
Here is where it could get a little fucked up though. Lets say Trumps administration has the wherewithal to think of this and they actually do go after not just NBC but all of there affiliates. NBC folds all of the stations nation wide and goes all cable. It will be a blow but they will will survive. What do they do with all of those broadcast stations and radio spectrum?
With the loss of there FCC license it would all be worthless to them. So they would probably sell them, and there is a bidder out there that would probably put up a large chunk of money to acquire all the broadcast stations from one of the big 4 broadcasts networks...
and now...
this.
Sinclair networks. if you think Fox News is bad. They are much worse. They are the already embodiment of Trump News Network, but instead of dominating cable news, they are coming to dominate your local news and their mission is to be to the right of Fox News.
For me, it's not the feasibility or practicality of it. It's the mere suggestion by a sitting President that something like that could be done, simply in response to someone saying something that he doesn't like. It's bad enough that he keeps putting the media in the crosshairs to begin with. This is just another dogwhistle to his rabid, deranged base that the real villain is anyone who says something contrary to him. And it's fueling some idiot's need to respond horribly to it.
Side note, I hope this story was at least vetted in some way. Because if it's just all unsubstantiated conjecture... I can't keep going through this type of thing turning into vapor and re-affirming the (false) fake news narrative.
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