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Lessons from FCC Regulation of Radio Broadcasting" the Deregulation of Radio consisted of: Non entertainment program regulation. The FCC eliminated "guidelines" indicating how much informational programming each station should carry to have its license renewed, replacing it with "a generalized obligation for commercial radio stations to offer ...
An FCC study found that the act led to a drastic decline in the number of radio station owners, even as the actual number of stations in the United States increased. [34] This decline in owners and increase in stations has resulted in radio homogenization , in which local programming and content has been lost [ 35 ] and content is repeated ...
Since deregulation in 1996, more than a third of all US radio stations have been bought and sold. Polgreen indicates that in the year following the legislation alone, 2045 radio stations were sold – a net value of $13.6 billion.
The 1987 repeal of the fairness doctrine enabled the rise of talk radio that has been described as "unfiltered", divisive and/or vicious: "In 1988, a savvy former ABC Radio executive named Ed McLaughlin signed Rush Limbaugh — then working at a little-known Sacramento station — to a nationwide syndication contract. McLaughlin offered ...
For example, radio stations that earn under $100,000 a year in revenue would be expected to pay a royalty rate of about $10 a year. Rep. Darrell Issa is reintroducing the House version of the ...
Mark S. Fowler (born October 6, 1941) served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from May 18, 1981 to April 17, 1987. Appointed by Ronald Reagan, [2] he led repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and spearheaded the deregulatory trend in telecommunications policy, and was a proponent of deregulation of television stations, and radio ownership laws.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expedited a decision to allow Democrat megadonor George Soros to obtain a major stake in more than 200 radio stations — a move the House Oversight ...
Another form of deregulation from the American government came from the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed companies to own more radio stations and for some shows to become nationally syndicated. Before the deregulation, radio stations were predominantly owned by local community leaders. [2]