More Media Consolidation Coming Soon

Logic Bomb writes: "According to the Washington Post, a federal appeals court yesterday made a ruling that could make the last couple years of media consolidation look like nothing. Some major FCC rules about media ownership were ruled as "arbitrary" and therefore illegal, most importantly the one preventing a company from owning the cable system and television stations in the same place. Also, though the FCC gets one more chance to defend it, the rule about a company not owning stations reaching more than 35% of the national viewership may get tossed out too."

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Re:Maybe its time to registed a new domain name

[SkewlD00d]

$ whois www.mcaoltimewarnercnnattcomcastnbcabccbscisco.com

McWorld (NETBLK-MCAOL-DTC)
1 OwnJ00 Wy
McCentral, McVA 00001
McUS
McWorld

Netname: AOL-DTC
Netblock: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255

Coordinator:
McAmerica Online, Inc. (AOL-NOC-ARIN) domains@AOL.NET
0

Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

DNS-01.NS.AOL.COM 1.1.1.232

Record last updated on 27-Apr-1998.
Database last updated on 19-Feb-2002 19:57:50 EDT.

Re:Spectacular

[Chiasmus_]

Yes, any empire that gets larger than its carrying capacity will eventually fail. Certainly. An empire encompassing the Mediterranean, most of Europe, and some of Asia and Africa is impractical when it takes three months to get a message from one corner to the other, let alone a defense force.

The carrying capacity of a physical government, needless to say, has grown. The carrying capacity of a media corporation is likely much larger than the earth. Your argument is optimistic, but I can't say I buy it. AOL Time Warner might crumble if it tried to overextend itself to, say, Alpha Centauri, but something tells me it'll do just fine capturing, say, 99% of the market share.