If broadcast TV competition was just between stations, then maybe this is a bad thing. But no, they are now competing against Netflix et al.

From my side of the pond this looks like a very outdated law that they've gotten rid of, though I understand the US TV market is pretty complex.

In an ideal world we would roll back to the 1996 telecommunications laws. (or something approximating a sensible approach to less narrow share of the broadcast spectrum)

I think anybody with a gripe about "mainstream media" should really examine who owns most of the media (billionaires) and see the value in enforcing that more indepedent voices are heard, not less as the past three decades has been a relentless march towards.

The whole idea with the advent of the internet was that there would be so many more ways to be heard. That's been kinda true, but the public airwaves are dominated by corporate voices.

I'd like to think a democratic president would have the appetite to do that.

Things like this can't be undone, any more than selling off public lands.

From what I've read, its blatantly illegal. So probably will be undone by the courts in a few months. I wonder if anyone has a list of illegal things this white house has mandated that were overturned and rebuked by the courts soon after.