[re_nortex]

Note that the typo "as return" was maintained as is from the original source. Obviously it should be "a return" but I opted to let it stand.

raccoonradio: Your thoughts?

[raccoonradio]

pinging for later...there are only so many frequencies on AM and FM and the FCC regulates them; going back to the Radio Act in the 30s, it was decided stations should “serve the public interest”—running public service announcements and serving the local community, etc.—but it’s a tough call whether to over-regulate or under-regulate. Should a company be allowed to own many stations in the same town?
Should there be no content regulations—in other words, should stations be allowed to say whatever the f-— they want without an FCC butting in? Good questions.

The libs of course can use the “airwaves are public” argument to justify everything from a (so-called) Fairness Doctrine to taxpayer funding of NPR...Many on the left complain about the ownership rules that allowed Clear Channel to own thousands of stations and companies to own multiple stations in same market...thus leading to
all-conservative-talk stations (because that’s profitable)
and domination by the likes of Rush (ahem, it was Clinton
who signed the bill)

I’ll have to look this over a bit later (very late at night now) and wonder how this will go over on the radio
discussion boards...thanks