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Basically the airwaves are regulated such that each company has a set place within the broadcast spectrum. A large part of the reasoning for this originally was so that multiple broadcasters wheren’t trying to send information over the same frequency and disrupting the transmissions.
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(and believe it or not, some countries even have license requirements to receive television transmissions)
That’s a decent point, and there’s some truth to that, but I could just as easily point to revenues and make the same argument. Newspapers are dying. And broadcast TV is constantly hemorrhaging viewers to cable, premium subscription channels, and plenty of other forms of entertainment/info sources…including the Internet. People simply have more options now…and the total audience for those companies (including their non-primary venue, e.g. TV, newspaper) is in overall decline…which to me shows a demonstrated preference for other things…which ultimately says Big Media is not “actually very efficiently satisying consumer demand right now”, and the masses aren’t “getting exactly what they want from their TV’s and newspapers”. Otherwise they wouldn’t be going elsewhere…would they.