WGAE Says Local Deregulation Not Needed, Citing Broadcaster Streaming Services
The FCC shouldn’t further weaken local broadcast ownership rules, filed the Writers Guild of America, East. “Permitting further consolidation of local radio and television station ownership reduces the number and diversity of viewpoints on issues of vital local importance,” WGAE…
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said in docket 18-349. “The picture of a traditional analogue broadcast world trying to save itself from being wiped out by a disruptive digital onslaught is a bit simplistic.” Broadcast networks appear to be “reorienting themselves” to the current media market without unlimited consolidation, said WGAE, citing CBS All-Access and other streaming services. The FCC created this problem by declining to regulate digital companies, WGAE said. It would be “bitterly ironic” if that lack of limitations caused the FCC to conclude that broadcasters should be relieved of their regulatory responsibilities to compete, WGAE said.