Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes About Competition

Quotes about: Competition

• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  New York, Rights, Government

• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Rights, Government, Community

• So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Competition, Stations

• In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with public broadcasting was, "Okay, we'll allow there to be a handful of public stations to do the educational programming that commercial broadcasters don't want to do, but the deal is they can't do anything that can generate an audience, anything that's commercially viable." Anything they do that could be commercially viable could be considered unfair competition to commercial interests and should only be on the commercial stations.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Educational, Competition, Unfair

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