Congress actually asked the gao to study a number of years ago and even the gao concluded they harm the Public Interest or contravene the ownership rules, time to do this topic to bed. For the people not so deeply steeped in sec lingo, we are talking two way consolidation might take place, two ways the consolidation grows scale. What is a horizontal point which is the combined company would own more stations across the country and therefore cover a large part of the country, the question is what percentage is okay for broadcasters to have as a horizontal matter across the country in a world where many distributors reach 100 of the country, in the old days only broadcasters could reach mass audience, now the internet is changing that. The second question is within each market, how many stations can you either own or have a significant relationship with such as socalled js as and when it comes to the individual market it is important to remember there are two screens any deal has to pass
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