RE: [dvd-discuss] ClearChannel Plays It Safe

[Jeme A Brelin <jeme(at)brelin.net>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org wrote:
> Surprisingly Herbert Hoover as Sec.Commerce put much of this
> together....The importance of broadcast media is that it does NOT
> require me to have working servers, working communications systems,
> between me and the server. One person gets on the air over TV or radio
> and all I need is electricity (wall plug or battery) and to be in the
> reception area and it provides millions of people with the
> information....time to rethink our telecommunications policy...

The Telecommunications Act of 1933 was worse than that of 1996.

Note that the vast majority of Americans in that day were toally opposed
to ANY commercial use of the public spectra.  But no public hearings were
held on the topic and the Telecommunications Act created the FCC to just
hand out licenses to commercial entities.  The trivial public interest
requirements of the early licenses have been systematically destroyed and
any renewed efforts to re-instate them has led to a threat, by Congress,
to disband the FCC entirely.

J.
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