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Excerpt from PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW, Friday 25 April
Bill Moyers: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell, and others, say, “Look, we have 500-plus channels. We have the satellite. We have the wide open internet that they are gonna know so well.” I mean, these have radically changed the media landscape. Perhaps we have more diversity.Barry Diller: No, we don’t. Because what we have is an absolute fact that five companies control 90 per cent of it all. It has been reconstituted. Instead of three channels controlled by a few people, there are now 500 controlled by a few people.
This doesn’t relate to the internet, by the way…Soon though the internet will have broadband capacity. And that, by the way is a chance for another reconstitution. What I’m worried about is that unless you think about this now, broadband may be controlled by the cable business.
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