Oligopoly In The 1990's

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During the 1990’s, some of the primary policies that had been put in place by the FCC to promote diversity of ownership of content in broadcasting were either eliminated or cut back. The Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (Fin-Syn) were repealed and the consent decree was also abandoned, allowing networks to own as much programming as the wanted, this opened the floodgates to mergers with studios. Through several other policy changes, such as the 1992 Cable Consumer Protection Act and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a vertically integrated, tight oligopoly emerged in the commercial television and video entertainment fields (Cooper, 2007)
Over the course of about a decade, the content that was aired in these fields became dominated

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