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What ever happened with the “Franken FM” FCC proposal?

DavidEduardo said:
It appears that, since the second year of the pandemic was the beginning of a recession, the "OTA" percentage has increased by about 2 points.
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It's a bit more complicated:


When you look at demos and dayparts. This is the context of my comment above:

The live viewership for broadcasting television has been on a downward trend this century. There was a joke in an episode of "30 Rock" where Alec Baldwin's character, the struggling NBC executive Jack Donaghy, had plans to return to the glory days of Must-See TV through "science or magic."
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DavidEduardo said:
Yet look at the 23% of viewing that is OTA. That means that roughly a quarter of all household units does not choose to pay for added services to save money or because they can not afford another expense of $100 or more a month for cable or high-speed internet plus needed program subscriptions in the case of streaming.
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Not quite correct. If a household has Broadcast TV and streams on high speed internet (as I do) it is categorized as OTA. I looked it up on their website with the link provided here.

That means there are much less homes that are true Broadcast TV homes only and do not stream at all (OTA).
 
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TheBigA said:
Disney had the opportunity to buy some of their affiliates, such as WJLA, and declined. There's a big sale going on at Paramount for all the heritage CBS real estate. Get ready to see more of that.
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Allbritton never offered WJLA separately, it was always as a collective unit (and justifiably so, as it made the entire chain go for the maximum amount). Disney was never going to buy the ABC affiliates in Little Rock or Lynchburg, Virginia, so of course they had an easy excuse to take a hard pass. But even then, most rumors of them being interested in a station since 1996 have come off as faint hopes of wishcasting.
DavidEduardo said:
The behaviour at Disney in the last several years has been downright bizarre. It is as if they can't even start to predict where tomorrow's money will come from.
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The latest Indiana Jones movie flopping and the latest Pixar movie (Elemental) underperforming is not going to help. Disney did themselves a major disservice by foresaking theatrical releases for far longer than they should have, and the overreliance on franchises is coming to bite the entire industry in the butt.

One wonders what position they'd be in if Rupert Murdoch hadn't just given up on 20th Century Fox and cashed out.
 
The FCC announced yesterday that FM6 (Franken FM) is now 'a thing.'

As expected, all FM6 stations are required to have an Online Public Inspection File and keep it up-to-date, something no LPTV station has had to bother with. They are also required to pay Supplementary Service Fees and file a Supplementary Service report. So it's not all cakes & ale. The service is still confined to 14 LPTV stations, no expansions so far.

 
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