RE :”airwaves do not belong to the station “owners,” as they call themselves, but to the people of the United States of America”
LOL The people meaning the democrats, just like USSR represented ‘the workers’ . Bring it on Hugo Chavis. Clinton was not stupid enough to try this power grab, and he had a reason too, Rush was building an empire on his presidency. This will be a good one to fight.
One thing to note as Rush and Levin say “THEY HATE US”
Investors do so to make money. Radio lives and dies by advertising based on audience. How many people are going to listen to AM Radio for music? None. How many for general talk? Answer, very few. NYC's general talk station WOR has in the past two years added Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller and locally Steve Malzberg and returned John Gambling. All to the right of center. Guess what, ratings up. No ratings, no ad mony. No ad money no profit. no profit, the investors bail out. The Dems, being Socialist, never understood Eco 101.
No, in this case it would mean the government as it would be a government bureaucracy that would decide what gets on the air to assure "fairness". This is turning the First Amendment on its head. A radio station would be free to air only what the government decides is good. Anything else would cost them control over their programming.
Advertisers are free to spend their advertising dollars on any program they want. They have chosen to support conservative talk radio because people want to listen to it. Government sponsored talk radio (NPR) is already available. We don't need to turn every station into NPR clones because no one will support it.
This is where this imbecile's logic falls apart.
OK, knobshine, why can't I just select an open frequency, buy a transmitter and begin broadcasting in the format of my choice? Why do I need to apply for a broadcast license and pay those exorbitant fees? I'm a citizen and not just a tax filer but and actual tax PAYER. Why should I be denied the use of "my" airwaves should my application be turned down?