SoFlo: TV WITH DISTORTED STATS -

We're about to get robbed of a TV station
by means of a false statistical picture.

In an Op-Ed column appearing in the Sunday print edition of the Sentinel, Tom Jicha explains that a Media Corporation which already operates a TV station in S Florida is being allowed to acquire another TV station because Spanish-speaking TV stations were mixed in with the Anglophonic TV stations to calculate the statistical picture.

Something similar happened in recent years to the Bestseller List for books when the runaway children's Harry Potter books were mixed in with the adult books to calculate the Bestseller List. The resulting distortion created some very serious problems for both book publishers and booksellers. The remedy for this problem was the separation of children's bestselling books from the adult Bestseller List.

The TV situation here in S Florida needs to be rectified in a similar way because English-speaking people cannot understand Spanish-speaking TV, and, thus, Spanish-speaking TV stations are irrelevant to the mainstream Anglophonic statistical picture.

The Spanish-speaking TV stations should be separated from the calculations to arrive at an accurate statistical picture for mainstream broadcast TV which is in English.

Otherwise, if WaPo-Newswk, which already owns Channel 10, is allowed to acquire Channel 6, they could control half of the main broadcast TV channels.

:: Jicha - Sentinel ::

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