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BuffettWorld • View topic - Karmazin: Industry Did 'Horrible Job' Fighting Decency Act
Karmazin: Industry Did 'Horrible Job' Fighting Decency Act
June 19, 2006
By Ken Tucker
Some things never change.
Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin shares his opinions about terrestrial broadcasters in general, and the NAB in particular, in a just-published interview with television industry magazine Broadcasting & Cable.
“It's a totally lame argument," Karmazin says of the NAB's recent complaint to the FCC that satellite radio is bleeding onto FM frequencies and should therefore be regulated.
"With satellite radio, like cable television, if you don't want it to come into your car or you don't want it in your home, you can program your receiver." Those that don't want to program their receiver can contact Sirius, Karmazin says, since "there is an easy solution to have it blocked if a parent doesn't want it.
"The NAB is spending more time talking about who should be regulated as compared to defending the industry against regulation," he said.
"I would've hoped the NAB would have been talking about why the content shouldn't be regulated and where the government should go the other way, rather than pointing fingers and saying, ‘But why aren't you regulating all of these others?’ It's just is a silly argument for an organization to make."
Karmazin also says broadcasters didn’t put up enough of a fight against the Decency Enforcement Act.
“I think the industry did a horrible job in using its political capital,” he said.
“In walking the halls of Congress, I know that, when broadcasters want something to happen, they do a pretty good of lobbying.
But I don't think there is as great an effort speaking out for free speech as there once was on the part of broadcasters.”
And while terrestrial companies are busy throwing stones, satellite is growing, Karmazin says.
“In 2007, there will be four radio companies that will have sales over a billion dollars;
Two of those four will be satellite radio, and one, obviously, is Sirius," he said.
"Clear Channel and [CBS Radio] and Sirius will be three of four companies with sales of over a billion dollars a year.
An awful lot of companies that are in the radio business aren't going to have that.”
Karmazin also addressed the challenges traditional content providers face in the battle with new media.
“I don't think it's ever been a better time to be a consumer, because you're really able to get your content any time you want it, any place you want it," he said.
"It may be tougher to be a media executive these days than it is to be a consumer.”
Karmazin also told B&C that the two million dollars Sirius paid CBS for 20 years worth of Howard Stern tapes was “probably the best content deal I have done in my career.
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Quote: : :hmm:
Nice contribution to the thread
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Air M'Ville Quote: : Quote: : :hmm:
Nice contribution to the thread
I have XM I don't care what the guys at the "other" place have to say.
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Quote: : Air M'Ville Quote: : Quote: : :hmm:
Nice contribution to the thread
I have XM I don't care what the guys at the "other" place have to say.
Even if they are competitors for subscribers, XM & Sirius are on the same side fighting against terrestial radio and regulation laws.
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When I was in radio, I went to a few NAB events.
That organization is one the most unorganized, in-fighting groups on the planet.
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Quote: : Quote: : Air M'Ville Quote: : Quote: : :hmm:
Nice contribution to the thread
I have XM I don't care what the guys at the "other" place have to say.
Even if they are competitors for subscribers, XM & Sirius are on the same side fighting against terrestial radio and regulation laws.
This I realize.
I hope they find a way to keep this from happening.
They will have to come together at some point in time to fight this.
I doubt it will happen if they just each try to fight on there own I don't see a good outcome.
But in the long run I truly feel it will the the subscribers of satellite radio that have the biggest impact into how much this gets fought.
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