Jimmy Kimmel came back to ABC this week. Rather. Abk about a quarter of an ordinary audience ABC did not see the host Talk -Show this week after two main owners of ABC Affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar refused to wear the program. These right-wing companies apparently felt that Kimmel’s joke contained some disputed facts-they were so not so painful that they could not put viewers to the comedian. They were also the first organizations that pulled the plugin to Kimmel after Brendan Carr of the Brendan Carr Commission seemed to be threatened by activities. This means that even the stations that the series wore – and also Disney, which is the owner of ABC – Might, who took the anger of a government official, who seems to be willing to operate his rights to silence critics.
Carr has power. FCC can grant a transmission license if the stations do not serve the public interest. This is a time artifact in which virtually 100 percent of viewers got their concerts via television antennas. Local TV stations received slices of a very confined spectrum of transmission to solve their programs and had to meet certain standards to keep this privilege. But this era has passed. Local television stations now reach their audience via cable or internet packages. In addition, networks are increasingly streaming their programming through the application. However, Carr still has the ability to intimidate networks and associated entities, threatening to undertake its licenses.
This raises the question: what is the meaning of maintaining the current system? It is certainly a mess for Disney and its network owners, such as Comcast, who owns NBC and Paramount, which owns CBS. Instead of cowting to the bodies for hating the freedom of speech and the request of associated entities who are fine with ABC programming censorship, perhaps Disney said goodbye to the stations that refuse programming. Disney already shows streams on the hul (which he controls) and in its own application. There have long been examples of local stations owned and operated by networks. What happens if Disney or Comcast allow contracts with an embarrassing associate, and then set up their own local stations without using a spectrum – both as cable applications and channels? Let Nexstar and Sinclair find their own programming in which they can adapt the content to any standard. Disney can happily bypass radio waves without worrying about the threat of FCC. They can even say Seven dirty words!
I went through this idea, a former FCC Commissioner who indicated some potential problems related to existing contracts and the like. But he generally agreed that the idea not only made sense, but he was already in motionOn the largest scale. “This is what Disney does, sending an ESPN stream and everything else. It must come,” he tells me, speaking to anonymity. Blair Levin, former chief of staff of the FCC chairman, was even more favorable to my idea. “Transmission is a melting ice cube,” he says. This is just the question of how much time it will waste. Five years? Ten?
So my idea is less inventive than I thought. The puzzle Kimmel appeared only sultry on a convicted piece of frozen water. Even when I talked to former FCC officials, Needham, an investment bank who followed the media, issued a note that suggested that even more drastic action was justified. Disney, he said, he should Start streaming immediately His whole schedule! The money he would derive from advertising or subscriptions would make up all losses than to make any losses, and Disney’s market capitalization would boost.
I don’t expect it to happen. Multiannual agreements and current relations between associated entities and networks are blocking in the current situation. But when I asked the director of the company, which owns the television stations whether the current agreement was balanced, I did not get the expected one. “This is a real question,” he tells me, admitting that the relationship has recently become more burdened.