Privacy, Fakes, Dishonest Media, Net Neut and Complaints

Here39s a list in no particular order of some of the many things now in flux in our extended media ecosystems of content providers and conduit servicesTMobile wants to get into the pay TV businessamp160 That is if it doesn39t merge with Sprint andor Charter doesn39t make a bid amp8230 or Dish doesn39t make a move with its spectrum and combine with TMobileamp160 Or Sprintamp160 Got a scorecardBoth Congress and the downtothreecommissioners Federal Confusion Commission are following the new Administration39s lead and examining each and every rule about each and every thing with a mandate to loosen the rules governing everythingAnd the FCC under new Chairman Ajit Pai is working overtime at doing just thatNo more Net Neutrality soonamp160 ProbablyNo more settop boxes favoring quotedgequot Internet companies that means Google and Facebook for exampleLooks like we39ve finally hit the point of no return for the glut of classic linear cable networksamp160 That39s hitting hard on the bottom line of some of the biggies Can you say Viacom amp160It39s also revving up initiatives like the American Cable Association39s ACA quest to dismantle bundling dealsamp160 I think that39s gonna happen no matter whatDid our new President really cause NFL ratings to dropFox News leads cable news ratings for the 15th consecutive year and why was anyone surprised when Trump triumphedamp160 The Washington Post39s Chris Cillizza reported that partly because the President consumes so much of cable news across all channelsamp160quotThis moment has the potential to be a second golden age for cable TVquotMaybe Charter won39t have to overbuild a million households after all amp160Chairman Pai says so anywayamp160 Amazing that forcing the creation of an overbuilder in the excuse of creating competition in places that can39t support it amp173 was mandated by the FCC in the first placeOur new President seems to believe anything that criticizes him is quotfakequot newsamp160 Gotta admit he sure is good at changing the subjectamp160 And he39s been a hot topic for late night laughsAbout data ATSC 30 is undoubtedly coming amp173 along with spectrum headaches for conduit companiesamp160 But that and some privacy rule changes that look likely might just give cable operators and broadcasters access to more and better usable dataamp160 They either can39t get the data now or are prohibited from using itRegarding media ownership rules couldn39t agree more with the ACA the small cable guys not the rejuvenated healthcare act that single market broadcast ownership of more than one station is another example of government ratcheting up retrans feesBut it would be nice if a TV radioamp160and newspaper triumvirate could work economically in a small market amp8230 perhaps working hand in hand with a small cable operatoramp160 Full disclosure tried and failed at that in a small Montana town decades agoThe Leader of the Free World declared all out war on a segment of the world39s media amp8230 you know the part that disagrees with himamp160 And the FBI just for funamp160 At the same time his party39s legislative representatives are canceling postponing andor blaming quotpaid protestorsquot for their interesting real and imaginative town hallsamp160 And he39s skipping the annual White House Correspondents dinneramp160 End of a traditionamp160 One more salvo in the new warClick on the social media tiles above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggers

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