Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.
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The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.
Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.
One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.
There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.
From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.
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