First post for RTVF 131

Ok this is the first post for this class. This week the main issue we are talking about is regulation in radio which also happens to be my specialized topic for discussion on Thursday. One of the main things to talk about is the Deregulation Act of 1996. This act in short said that anyone can own as many radio stations as they wanted. It was intended to make it so that smaller companies could each own a few and individualize their stations. It totally backfired on the other hand and huge companies such as Clear Channel gobbled up all the stations in certain markets and filled them with similar content. It hurt the variety and radio and to this day makes many people angry cause the content is all the same.