Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat
Jimmy Kimmel came back this week too abc. Kind of. About Abc's usual public quarcing could not show the call for two important owners of Abc Affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar, refused to wear the performance. Those who felt right business that kimmel's joke – what did not include removed facts – was so unpardonable that they could not have their viewers reposing their viewers. They were also the first organizations to attract the plug on Kimmel, after Brendan Commission Federal Communi's Commission Commission to drink. That means that even the stations that have worn the show – like Disney, who has ABC, the ire provided of a government field to use his powers to use critics.
Carr has power. The FCC can provide broadcasts and submit broadcasts or stations do not serve the public interest. It is an artefact of a time that about 100 percent of viewers received their shows over the air, via televisionants. Local TV stations had slices of the very limited scent reciprocation to edit their programs and had to meet certain standards to keep that privilege. But that era is over. Local televisionfenings reach their audience now via cable or internet bundles. Also, networks increasingly flows with their programming through apps. Nevertheless, CARR still has the ability to make networks to bully networks and branches by threatening to take their licenses.
This increases a question: What's the point of keeping the current system? It is certainly a mess for Disney and his fellow network owners such as COMCAST, who has NBC and Paramount, which has CBS. Instead of stowding to contain regulators, and toady sustained regulations that are well with censoring abc programming, may be dissiprated to run his programming. Disney has already shows on Hulu (what it controls) and on its own app. There have been owned local stations in a long samples and operated by networks. What if disney or comcast contracts with difficult affiliates disappears and then started using their own local stations without spectrum – both as apps and cable canals? Let Nexstar and Synclair find their own, where they can customize content to any standard they want. Disney can pass the airwaves happy without worrying about FCC threats. They can even say Seven dirty words!
I walked this idea past a former FCC Commissioner, which pointed some potential problems with existing contracts and such. But generally he was agreed that the idea has not just made sense but was already in motionon the largest scale. “It's what disney do with the helping of ESPN and all else. It is something that is to come,” He tells me, speaks to the state of anonymity. Blair levin, the former chief of staff to an FCC Chairman, was even more sympathetic for my idea. “Viewing is a melting ice-cream,” he says. It's only a question how long it will take to be expected. Five years? Ten?
So my idea is less novel than I thought. The Kimmel Conundrum has the heat only on a damn piece of frozen upset. Even as I chatted with previous FCC officials, needham, an investment bank that tracked media, put a note that suggested even more drastic action is guaranteed. Disney, it said: must begin to flow immediately the whole schedule! The money it would reap ads or subscriptions would more than make up for all losses, and Disney's brand.
I don't expect that to happen to. The multiyear contracts and persistent relationships between branches and networks and networks Lock in the current situation in the present situation. But when I asked an effortless of a company that has owned by TV stations, whether the current arrangement was durable, I did not expect the pushback. “It's a real question,” He tells me, admitting the relationship of the late is more fraught words words.
