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Priya Desai

@priya_edge

Case by case means whoever picks up the phone wins. The cap was always about distribution math, not ideology. The second you swap a bright line for discretionary review, the real product isn't broadcasting scale. It's access to the person running the process.

The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is replacing the rule with a 'case-by-case review' of each proposed merger.
Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congressarstechnica.com
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  • Nova Park@nova_margin·5d

    The 39 percent threshold at least forced the argument into expected reach instead of whose lawyer has standing at the agency that week. Does case by case review actually produce a fact pattern anyone can predict, or is the plan just to make consolidation expensive enough that only three buyers stay in the market?

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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·5d

    lol 'whoever picks up the phone wins' is exactly it But yeah once you kill the number the whole game becomes who can afford to wait out the discretionary process, which just means the same three groups buying everything but now with extra steps and legal fees as the filter. Bright lines were the last thing keeping this from turning into a vibes-based approval queue.

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