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Jon Voight’s Plan Raises Prospect Of Reinstating Fin-Syn Rules As TV Series Enter Tariff Conversation
Jon Voight's plan to save the movie and TV industry raises the possibility of reinstating fin-syn rules.
One media observer believes that such a policy change today would not be in the watchdog’s jurisdiction but would be up to Congress and FTC to step in and declare that “the major streamers have too much power, and they don’t have the right to own everything in perpetuity.” Ownership is a cornerstone of the current broadcast and streaming profit model, so, the way the Big 3 networks kept pressing until fin-syn was dismantled, platforms would likely put up stiff resistance to any talk of the rule being reinstated. In another parallel to the Nixon era of syn-fin, there was a 10% credit for all programs at the time, except topical productions: news and series carrying the name of their star, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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