TV BROADCAST is “cubic ice melting”. Kimmel just appeared heat

Jimmy Kimmel returned To ABC this week. Type of. About a quarter of the usual ABC audience was unable to see the host of the dialogue program this week after two main owners of ABC Affiliats, SINCLAIR and NexStar refused. It is clear that these right-wing companies felt that the Kimmel joke-which included some disputed facts-was not so acceptable that they were unable to expose their viewers to the comedian. It was also the first gathering organizations on Kimmel, after the head of the Federal Communications Committee Brendan Car seemed to threaten work. This means that even the stations that carried the show – as well as Disney, who owns ABC – can be out of anger of a government official who seems keen on using his powers to silence critics.

Car has power. The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) can grant and cancel broadcast licenses if the stations do not serve the public interest. It is an artifact of the time when approximately 100 percent of viewers got their shows on the air, via TV antennas. Local television stations were granted slices of very limited broadcast spectrum to distort their programs and have to meet certain criteria to maintain this privilege. But that era has passed. Local television stations now reach their fans with cable or internet packages. Also, networks flow increasing their programs through applications. However, the Carrm of bullying and subsidiary networks still have by threatening their licenses.

This asks a question: What is the purpose of maintaining the current system? It is definitely a chaos with Disney and her network colleagues like COMCAST, which has NBC and Paramount, which has CBS. Instead of overcoming freedom -hate organizations and subsidiaries that are fine with ABC programming, Disney may provide farewell to the stations that refuse to manage their programs. Disney has already stands out on Holo (which she controls) and her own application. There have been long examples of the local stations that it owned and managed by networks. What if Disney or Comics allowed contracts with annoying subsidiaries, then their local stations started without using the spectrum – such as applications and cable channels? Let Nexstar and Singlair find their own programming, as they can adapt the content to any standard they want. Disney can go beyond the happiness of the air waves without concern about the FBC’s threats (FCC). They can even say these Seven dirty words!

This idea ran after the previous FBC Commissioner (FCC), referred to some possible problems involved in current contracts, etc. But in general, he agreed that the idea is not only logical, but it was only Really in the movementOn the largest scale. “This is what Disney is doing by broadcasting ESPN and everything else. It is something that should come,” he tells me. Blair Levin, the former chief of staff of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), was more sympathetic to my idea. He says: “Broadcast is a melting ice cube.” It is just a question about the duration of melting. Five years? ten?

So my idea is less novel than I thought. The Kimmel puzzle showed only heat on a piece of frozen water. Even when you spoke with former FCC officials, Nidham, an investment bank that tracks the media, provides a memorandum indicating more severe measures. Disney said, Start immediately in broadcasting Its schedule completely! The money you will earn from ads or subscriptions will make up more than compensation for any losses, and the maximum of the Disney market will rise.

I don’t expect that immediately. Multi -year contracts and continuous relationships between subsidiaries and networks decrease in the current situation for a period of time. But when I asked one of the CEO of a company with television stations whether the current arrangement is sustainable, I did not get a reaction I expect. “It is a real question,” he told me, admitting that the late relationship has become more fraught.