Changes in broadcasting regulations The other key thing was the financial syndication rules called the Fin Syn rules They were basically limited to how much of the programming the networks could own and the producers rather than networks would retain the production rights They could then once the program had been sold and had its first run on a network they can re sell it to an independent station or they could re sell it to re run in to the 7 hour So the producers retain what we call the syndication rights The networks couldn t dominate either original syndication or re runs They had basically two forms of syndication You could either create new stuff which was increasingly common in the 90s or you could re run stuff that already had been popular on TV This was important from 70s on to 90s But the Regan Industry when it came out in the 80s was very critical of this so it had a lot of allies in the TV industry and it thought we were over regulated As cable TV came in from mid 80s to early 90s and begins to be very popular and powerful by the mid 90s a lot of people well after the Regan revolution begin to say there is competition from cable TV There isn t really a scarceful of channels we have lots of channels on cable maybe we don t need these rules anymore The rules were eliminated by the 90s and now if you look at how much of primetime on the network is owned by the networks it is very high again but that is now counter balanced by the different kinds of networks the satellite are now increasing stuff on the internet as well The argument in favor of eliminating this was that it wasn t really necessary anymore because of the technological change The argument in terms of keeping it would have been that it created a guarantee space for independent production which after this change independent production diminished again
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