Name: 「這比深夜節目還大得多！」 FTC 前官員談 Kimmel 爭議對電視產業的影響！ ('This is much bigger than late night': Ex-FTC on Kimmel feud's impact on TV business)
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And we're back with the money lead and the Jimmy Kimmel show suspension.

歡迎回到我們的金錢線索單元，以及 Jimmy Kimmel 節目停播事件。

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As we've been laying out for a couple days now, there's a very obvious money trail.

就像我們這幾天說明的，有一條非常明顯的金錢線索。

Nexstar, the biggest owner of local TV stations in the country, needs the FCC to approve their effort to buy their biggest rival, Tegna.

Nexstar 是全國最大的地方電視臺擁有者，需要 FCC 準許他們收購最大競爭對手 Tegna 的行動。

And this week, nexstar followed the lead of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who said he wanted local TV stations to announce they were no longer going to air Kimmel by announcing that their ABC affiliated stations would preempt Jimmy Kimmel because they said they objected to Jimmy Kimmel's comments.

而本週，Nexstar 跟進了 FCC 委員 Brendan Carr 的做法，他表示希望地方電視臺宣佈不再播出 Kimmel 節目，方法就是宣佈他們 ABC 聯盟的電視臺將會停播 Jimmy Kimmel，因為他們說他們反對 Jimmy Kimmel 的評論。

With us now is former Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya.

現在和我們在一起的是前聯邦貿易委員會委員 Alvaro Bedoya。

He was fired by the Trump administration this past March.

他在今年三月被川普政府開除。

We should just clarify that you were with the ftc, Federal Trade Commission, not the fcc, the Federal Communications Commission.

我們應該澄清一下，您是在 FTC，聯邦貿易委員會，而不是 FCC，聯邦通信委員會任職。

But either way, some of these mergers and such would probably need FTC approval as well as, well, there's a lot of money to be made.

但無論如何，其中一些合併案等，可能都需要 FTC 的準許，而且，嗯，這其中有很多可以賺的錢。

Nexstar has ample reason to try to endear itself to the fcc.

Nexstar 有充足的理由試圖討好 FCC。

So does Bob Iger and Disney, for that matter.

What do you think's going to happen next?

So I don't know what will happen with this, but

I can tell you that this is much bigger than late night, because maybe you go to bed at 10, maybe you just don't have cable, but

我可以告訴你，這比晚間節目大多了，因為你可能晚上十點就睡了，你可能根本沒有看有線電視，但是

you do buy groceries, you do have prescription medicine.

你還是會買雜貨，你還是會買處方藥。

And what this president is doing is using these rules that are supposed to protect the public against mergers that are going to hurt them or raise prices.

而這位總統正在做的，就是利用這些本來要保護民眾免受傷害或漲價的合併案的規則。

And he's using those rules to hurt his enemies and help his friends.

他利用這些規則來傷害他的敵人，幫助他的朋友。

And so it's not going to matter if grocery prices go up or drug prices go up.

所以，雜貨價格上漲或藥品價格上漲，都不重要了。

What's going to matter is who's given how much to the president and his friends.

重要的是誰給了總統和他的朋友們多少好處。

Because just to reiterate for people, the more companies there are, the more competition there is, and

因為我再說一次，公司越多，競爭就越多，

that keeps theoretically, prices as low as possible, unless there's, you know, antitrust violations going on.

理論上，這能讓價格盡可能低，除非有反壟斷違規行為。

And you posted on social media that you think that this is broader than censorship, broader than late night.

而且你在社群媒體上發文說，你認為這比審查更廣泛，比晚間節目更廣泛。

50 media companies controlling 90% of the market, down to 5 companies controlling 90% of the market.

有 50 家媒體公司控制了 90% 的市場，現在只剩下 5 家公司控制 90% 的市場。

It used to be 40 years ago 50 companies were around controlling that market.

40 年前，有 50 家公司控制著那個市場。

If you censor company number 50, good luck with the other 49.

如果你審查第 50 家公司，那其他 49 家就難了。

But now we have a situation where There are just five media conglomerates controlling 90% of the market.

但現在的情況是，只有五家媒體集團控制著 90% 的市場。

And the president can literally hold out his hand and say, we got Colbert Kimmel's next.

總統可以伸出手說，我們有 Colbert、Kimmel 的下一集。

So people need to understand that this has been years in the making and that consolidation not only is bad for free speech when a couple people control what we watch on television, it also paves the way for this kind of censorship and overreach.

所以大家需要明白，這件事醞釀了好幾年，而且這種壟斷不僅對言論自由有害，當少數人控制我們在電視上看到的內容時，它也為這種審查和越權鋪平了道路。

And we should note that when you say Fallon and Myers are next, the late night comedians on NBC, you're quoting him.

而且我們應該注意到，當你說 Fallon 和 Myers 是下一集時，NBC 的晚間節目主持人，你是在引用他的話。

But beyond that, I think one of the things that people might need to understand why Colbert first?

但除此之外，我認為大家可能需要了解的一件事是，為什麼是 Colbert 先？

There are opportunities to squeeze these companies because of mergers.

因為合併，這些公司有被擠壓的機會。

It's happening now with Kimmel and Disney and nexstar.

現在 Kimmel、Disney 和 Nexstar 也是這樣。

The reason it hasn't happened to the NBC guys is because their parent company isn't trying to merge with anybody right now.

NBC 的人之所以沒有發生這種情況，是因為他們目前的母公司沒有打算與任何公司合併。

理查尼克森其實也做過這件事，

there are actually tapes where he's saying, don't mess with my guys when it comes to their merger.

而且其實有錄音帶，他當時說，別在合併這件事上惹我的手下。

我們現在看到的情況是變本加厲。

And so what used to be a process that was supposed to protect the American consumer, make sure people had choices with respect to their media, with respect to their grocery stores, has basically been hijacked to advance this president's agenda.

所以，過去這個本來是為了保護美國消費者、確保大家在媒體選擇、在雜貨店選擇上都有選擇的過程，現在基本上被劫持來推動這位總統的議程。

And the one thing I will say is that this is years in the making.

我想說的一點是，這件事醞釀了好幾年。

And Republicans and Democrats have created a legal system that kept on letting these companies get bigger.

共和黨和民主黨都建立了一個讓這些公司不斷壯大的法律體系。

The Telecommunications act in 1996 paved the way for each of these companies to gobble each other up more and more.

1996年的電信法為這些公司互相併購鋪平了道路。

And that's because a lot of these telecommunications agencies gave a lot of donations to Republicans and Democrats alike.

那是因為很多電信機構都對共和黨和民主黨捐了不少錢。

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