Who serves on the judiciary and commerce communities. The text that opposition to the merger. This was hosted by the georgetown law institute. Good afternoon. Welcome im so excited to see this crowd, to talk about the merger of the future media ownership. My name is gigi and im a fellow with the Georgetown Institute for technology. I want to thank a couple of folks, the institute for public representation which is part of georgetown law center, the Benton Foundation the mozilla foundation. Also senator blumenthal of connecticut who your be hearing from soon and jamie was a Research Fellow at georgetown and alexander who is head of the institute for you may have heard she broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping. A shoplifter knocked them over. I was in there the day before. Anyway if you could send well wishes to her. Also the other georgetown students gathered by andy, panelists helping today with logistics. The me set the stage. In may Sinclair Broadcast Group ann
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
Now, before we start i want to thank a couple of folks and a couple of institutions. I want to thank the institute for technology, law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is also part of Georgetown Law Center, the betten foundation and no civil la foundation for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank senator richard blumenthal, and i want to thank jamie who is a Research Fellow at georgetown and kind of my personal law clerk and doing a fabulous job. And alexander givens whos the head of the institute who some of you may have heard broke her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m in friendship heights, a shoplifter knocked them over and down a flight of stairs. I was in that h m, like, the day before. If people could send well wishes to alex, shes done a fabulous job running the institute. I also want to thank the other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, one of our panelists, who are going to be helping today with various an
Local content and media diversity. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. I am so excited to see this crowd to talk about the media ownership. Im gigi sohn, fellow at the georgetown university. I want to thank the institute for Technology Law and policy. The institute for public representation, which is will part of Georgetown Law Center. Fenton foundation and mozilla. I want to thank senator blumenthal from connecticut who well hopefully being hearing from soon for reserving this room and a Research Fellow and personal law clerk, doing a fabulous job, alexander gibbons, head of the institute, who some of you may have heard pro her leg when she and her son or daughter were shopping at h m were shoopping and a shoplifter knocked her over. I was there the day before. If people send well wishes to alex, shes done a great job running the institute. I want to thank other georgetown students gathered by Andy Schwartzman, our panelist, helping today with various a
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