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The Current State of Media Concentration

How to become a Media Mega-Conglomerate:

1. Deregulate

What is deregulation?

Landmarks

1. Relaxing the restrictions on ownership of radio stations (no restriction), television stations (no limit), and television networks (35% of a market, up from 25%);
2. Repeals the rule against television network/cable cross- ownership;
3. Extends legal protections against signal piracy to Direct Broadcast Satellite;
4. Provides for closed captioning of video programming for hearing-impaired viewers;
5. Eliminates the prohibition against foreign officers and directors of licensees and their parent companies;


8 may 1997

ckelty@mit.edu