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Abstract
In an increasingly global market, severe restrictions upon foreign investment in broadcasting companies have enabled them to remain primarily domestic entities. This Note reviews these restrictions and advocates reforming the world-wlde system of broadcasting ownership regulation. This author discusses the major policies underlying the current regulations and demonstrates their implications by looking at several hypothetical regulatory schemes. The Note then focuses upon regulatory systems that are currently being used, as well as a hypothetical system based upon reciprocity. In the process, the author reviews the ownership restrictions of the United States, Canada, Australia, the European Community, and several lesser-developed markets. Finally, the Note weighs the various approaches currently used and proposes an ideal system of regulation for the global broadcasting industry.
Recommended Citation
W. Scott Hastings,
Foreign Ownership of Broadcasting: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Beyond,
29 Vanderbilt Law Review
817
(2021)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vjtl/vol29/iss4/4