Brooks Boliek in Hollywood Reporter writes:
"The FCC should expand its examination of U.S. media ownership rules to include concerns expressed by independent producers that vertically integrated media companies stifle creativity, the FCC's senior Democrat said Wednesday."That's something we definitely ought to look at," FCC commissioner Michael Copps said. "Look at John D. Rockefeller. It was not just the product. He had the content and the distribution, and that's what we have now."
Copps argued that without some protection for indies, the creative juices will flow out of broadcasting.
"This goes beyond dry figures. It really goes to the ability of the country to be creative ... to nurture it's creative genius or sustain it's creative genius," he said.
Most of the creative guilds, indie powerhouse Carsey-Werner-Mandabach, advertising giant MediaCom and Sony Pictures Television formed a pair of coalitions which asked the commission to set aside a portion of the primetime schedule for productions unaffiliated with the networks."
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