Jim Rutenberg

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On the Media · The FCC’s Pressure Campaign to Reshape Broadcast TV · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

It needs to be used responsibly.

The industry wanted that because it was chaos.

Anyone with a setup from the hardware store could get onto radio.

So it was a mess.

And then over the decades, very, very specific stipulations rose up for what it meant to be serving the public interest.

Are you offering certain kinds of news program?

Are all sides getting their point of view across on your airways?

Are you offering children's program, et cetera, et cetera?

It moves on to TV.

And it's in the Reagan era where the Republicans say, we really don't like this stuff.

They get rid of some of the more powerful parts of this.

Then after the Reagan era, no FCC commissioner made a habit, certainly not a habit, of enforcing these standards.

it really enabled the entire conservative infrastructure to blossom.

Podcasts would have never fallen under those old standards, but a template was set.

You mentioned the equal time rule, which Brendan Carr brings up a lot.

There even to this day is a rule that if you are a broadcaster, your local station in your town, radio or TV,

And you have an entertainment program, not a news program.

And you invite the local candidate on who's registered for office.

And you're not news, by the way.

I'm going to stress entertainment.

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