[merrylander]

When Martin was head of the Funny Cookie Company he allowed more and more concentration of TV broadcasting into fewer and fewer hands. Some Republicam appointee was put in as head of the CPB and did his level best to screw up that organization. Some of us support PBS because we value it as an alternative to NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX and ABC.

Then of course there was the brilliant plan for HDTV, calling on every station, pulic or private, to ante up for some very expensive new transmitters, cameras, etc. I do not doubt that the NAB was lobbied pretty hard by manufacurers of the same to impose DTV on us all. Mind you Verizon and AT&T lobbied pretty hard as well because they wanted the bandwidth.

The broadcast spectrum is the property of the citizens, yet most stations take a free ride.