ColumbusNewsFan 217 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Because The FCC is about to do there job and put a proposal on the table to end Virtual Duopolies. From TVSpy Despite indications the FCC has tabled a decision to end joint sales agreements until the commission could study the impact of the proposal on minority ownership, commissioner Ajit Pai recently told TVNewsCheck, “It is very much on the table.” As the further goes on to explain... From TV Spy Under the proposal, JSA’s would need to be “unwound” within two years or the stations would count as being wholly owned. The Full article is here... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/fcc-proposal-to-end-virtual-duopolies-very-much-on-the-table_b83053 My thoughts: What took so damn long FCC? We have been talking about this for a decade now and seeing Sinclair and Nexstar use these rules to grab as many stations as possible. Personally, About DAMN time this happen! I know your thoughts but let them loose! That's what TVNT is all about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronQ 260 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Because The FCC is about to do there job and put a proposal on the table to end Virtual Duopolies. As the further goes on to explain... The Full article is here... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/fcc-proposal-to-end-virtual-duopolies-very-much-on-the-table_b83053 My thoughts: What took so damn long FCC? We have been talking about this for a decade now and seeing Sinclair and Nexstar use these rules to grab as many stations as possible. Personally, About DAMN time this happen! I know your thoughts but let them loose! That's what TVNT is all about! IT'S ABOUT F***ING TIME!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10Viewer 319 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Long overdue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 376 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Will this happen? No. Sinclair and Nexstar will just lobby their way around this, just like Tribune did in Hartford with it's TV duopoly and ownership of more than a half dozen daily and weekly newspapers in the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country News 435 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Not to sound like an advocate here, but, could this mean the collapse of several duopoly news departments like the one in my market? (KTAB-KRBC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A3N 996 Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 At the end of the day, it's all about politics and money. Unfortunately, I don't really see this progressing to the point of eliminating LMA's/JSA's, Nexstar and Sinclair have too much invested into their operations to just give it up without a fight and like qunewsguy mentioned, they'll just lobby their way around this. The only other way to stop Sinclair's shopping spree would be for the banks lending them the money to not do so anymore, once they can't get loans to purchase more stations, then they'll be forced to stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hathawaynson2 38 Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 Because The FCC is about to do there job and put a proposal on the table to end Virtual Duopolies. As the further goes on to explain... The Full article is here... http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/fcc-proposal-to-end-virtual-duopolies-very-much-on-the-table_b83053 My thoughts: What took so damn long FCC? We have been talking about this for a decade now and seeing Sinclair and Nexstar use these rules to grab as many stations as possible. Personally, About DAMN time this happen! I know your thoughts but let them loose! That's what TVNT is all about! its about time that the shell corporations need to be unraveled within the next two years and normally I would'nt lecture and have an longer thought about SSA/JSA/LMA agreements but I'm letting this one go for the record and hopefully that an FCC commissioner can be able to read this and grasp the concept on unraveling the agreeements without any judgemental comments. (very deep breath) Quoted out of the article: by TV Newscheck 1/18/2013 "The NAB and individual broadcasters who have been intensely lobbying the FCC lately not to outlaw virtual duopolies received some encouraging words from FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell this week. "The commission must resist calls for limiting, and therefore discouraging, the use of joint sales, shared service, and local news service agreements," he said in a speech before the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. Through the use of such agreements, broadcasters have been combining station operations in markets — creating so-called virtual duopolies — where the FCC local duopoly rules say they can't own two stations outright." Rather than relaxing the duopoly rules in the Federal Communications Commission's current review of the all its ownership limits to permit outright dual ownership, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wants to crack down on the sharing arrangements, maybe even forcing broadcasters to undo existing ones." I personally think that these agreements (Joint Sales, Shared Services and Local News Service agreements should be undone in a common sense to the point it should never happened in the near future. Let's look at Topeka, Kansas for example, the ABC, NBC and FOX affiliates formed into one news service that repeats the same information at different times and the beneficial sacrifice was the ABC affiliate stop airing separate newscasts and started the news service after it was bought by a shell corporation and forced to merge with the NBC and FOX affiliates and it cost a lot of jobs and there is only one affiliation that is left that airs separate newscasts which is the CBS affiliate. Look at Sinclair's Columbus and Dayton Ohio stations that it owns directly, Sinclair uses a shell corporation called Cunningham Broadcasting or better (Cunningrab)to perform SSA/JSA procedures to operate duopolies that are not supposed to work in those markets, respectively. If I was a broadcasting group, I would say I will not buy another station that is in the in the top four affiliate's list within the market. Look at Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Mission Broadcasting; they have plenty of stations that are under these kinds of agreements that Nexstar takes responsibility for one large station and Mission taking on another stations responsibility with these kinds of agreements. Let's take Evansville, Indiana, Joplin and Springfield Missouri and Little Rock, Arkansas. For example: Springfield's CBS affiliate is owned by Mission and its services are being handled by Nexstar's station in the Springfield area. In Joplin, the NBC Affiliate controls the ABC affiliate's and they both air repetitive newscasts and have different anchors and in Evansville, Indiana, The ABC affiliate is owned by Nexstar and the former FOX affiliate (that is now independent) is controlled by that station by this agreement that severed each stations newscasts and formed an merger called "Eyewitness News" and this product in my personal opinion is an disgrace to people who don't want to lose their jobs over mergers. And finally, Little Rock Arkansas, Nexstar and Mission just complete an sale from Newport Television in Little Rock Arkansas just last year and not realizing that Nexstar owned the NBC and MY Network TV affiliate and wanted a four-way operations in which the FOX and CW affiliate were sold to a shell corporation called Mission Broadcasting. As an result, the FOX and CW affiliate's are being run by Nexstar and all of news, production, sales and master control operations of those two stations have been outsourced to other operations that station group owns and operate. Folks there are more and more virtual duopolies within the United States that need to be undone as soon as the FCC can get to them. Simply put it this way, I would like to see the FCC start unraveling these so called virtual duopolies with these affected stations and I personally want Nexstar and Sinclair to start with removing the agreements and after that, FORCE any other station group that has these kinds of operations to undo the same thing, It is simple as that! (I apologize for the long lectures about issues with an shell corporation and parent corporation being a major pill and the long sentences, but I would like to see these virtual duopolies and tripolies undone a lot more as much as anyone else does in the United States and I would like to see the second station be more independently controlled by women and/or minorities rather than using these agreements. For once, in a lifetime, can the Federal Communications Commission gets its s*** together and deal with the LMA/SSA/JSA agreements (inclusion of grandfathered ones) once and for all with out any prejudice commentary??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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