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Title: Media EmergenC Convergence
START DATE: 10/7/2004
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 6 Hours
Location: San Diego
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NBC Offices, Broadway and Third Avenue – Downtown San Diego Thursday night, the NAB will be holding their Marconi Awards ceremony. In response, Media EmergenC will hit the streets to hand out our own awards for corporations that have been particularly effective at stifling the voice of the people this year. March with us from the NBC offices to the Convention Center for a night of protest, street theater and fun! March will start at NBC offices at 6:30 p.m.
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The NAB may well be the most powerful lobby in the US. The US Congress dares not cross them. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which is supposed to regulate the equitable use of the public airwaves, serves as their police force. In 1996, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act which legalized the theft of the public airwaves by the NAB. The Act lifted restrictions which severely limited the number of radio and television stations any one entity could own. The FCC, whose officials often get lucrative employment in the industry upon leaving government service, was told by the NAB that if it opposed the 1996 legislation, the NAB would see to it that the FCC would be disbanded. Campaign finance reform provisions which would have mandated free airtime for political candidates, and thus benefitted candidates not backed by big money, were also squashed by pressure from the N.A.B.

In 2003, the FCC responded to pressure from the NAB's calls to "reform" cross ownership regulations by dramatically weakening those regulations in favor of major media corporations. The NAB had been calling for these changes and they got exactly what they wanted from the FCC. The changes were eventually overturned though, in light of the over 2 million public comments against them versus 5 comments from major corporations for the changes.

Americans are resisting this stranglehold on our ability to communicate freely. In the forefront of this battle is the Free Radio movement which works to put low-powered and inexpensive radio transmitters in the hands of local communities broadcasting in the public interest. These radio stations are presently illegal as the FCC will not license them. However, as recently as the 1978, it was possible to get a low cost license for a non-commercial stations under 100 watts. Pressure from the N.A.B. and from National Public Radio, which wanted to control the non-commerical band, resulted in the FCC eliminating these low-power licenses. Now, licensing costs are in the neighborhood of 0,000 dollars, even for non-profit broadcasters, and frequencies are selling for millions of dollars, beyond the reach of all but the wealthy.

Who are the real pirates here?

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