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Adam Thierer looks at it in City Journal:
According to FCC data and various private reports, America boasts close to 14,000 radio stations today, double the number that existed in 1970. Satellite radio—an industry that didn’t even exist before 2001—claimed roughly 13 million subscribers nationwide by 2007. Eighty-six percent of households subscribe to cable or satellite TV today, receiving an average of 102 channels of the more than 500 available to them. There were 18,267 magazines produced in 2005, up from 14,302 in 1993. The only declining media sector is the newspaper business, which has seen circulation erode for many years now. But that’s largely a result of the competition that it faces from other outlets Of course, this deluge does not stop the authoritarians from complaining, though they cannot decide on the problem: Is it that too many of these outlets are controlled by the same people, that they are NOT controlled by the right people, that the proliferation is undermining some mystic ideal of community, or that some outlets are more popular than others?
It is not clear - but whatever the problem, the solution is regulation. By the right people, of course.
posted by James DeLong @ 8:49 AM | Media: Video, Music...
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