RY>>>> Sharon, how it works is there's Fox Network (the large company)
 RY>>>> that owns a few large-market television stations, but provides
 RY>>>> programming to local, smaller stations across the country. they
 RY>>>> are known as Affiliates, as opposed to the "Owned and
 RY>>>> Operateds" (O&O's). That's what a network is, a banding
 RY>>>> together of small stations for nutual gain. Newscorp, which
 RY>>>> owns Fox among many other things (like mewpapers,and
 RY>>>> broadcastin companies here and in Europe and Australia) is a
 RY>>>> giant Empire, well diversified.

 SC>>> I forget what they call it from my college days, but what
 SC>>> happened to the law that says that one person/company can't own
 SC>>> more than a certain amount of radio, tv stations or newspapers.
 SC>>> I think that went out of the window a long time ago. Everything
 SC>>> is turning into a monopoly and nobody is stopping it.

 RY>> "Monopoly".

 RY>> There was a limit on how many total stations a corporation could
 RY>> own, but about 10 years ago that was revised. Then, about 5 years
 RY>> after that it was revised again. Then, last year, it was revised
 RY>> yet again after the Commission changed Chairman.

 SC> Gotta keep big business going. :-( When are those jobs leaving the
 SC> country?

Tricky,but possible, don't give them Ideas..

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