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07/12/2004: "FCC killing broadcast TV (redux)"


Dave Farber's Interesting People list is a fantastic place to hang out online, if you can deal with the volume.

There was a post this morning titled "FCC decency rules already chilling content", part of which predicts the demise of broadcast TV via the broadcasters new-found inability to say "fuck", and various other four-letter invectives, along with, presumably, no more bare nipples on women.

The poster, Barry Ritholtz states, in part:

This will make difficult (if not impossible) for Broadcast stations to compete with Cable and Satellite channels.

But I already said that here.