Should a church be permitted to own a major network affiliate like the Mormons own the Salt Lake NBC station?

Or by doing so are they taking too much power?



The LDS church owns the NBC television affiliate in Salt Lake City, KSL, Channel 5. And they don't air all the NBC programing. For example, they have decided it isn't good for the good people of Salt Lake City to see Saturday Night Live so that show isn't shown.



I find it offensive to take away people's personal choices because you think you know what is better for them.Should a church be permitted to own a major network affiliate like the Mormons own the Salt Lake NBC station?
Personally, I don't think that is right.
Its called freedom of speech. And it happens to be their station so they can say or put on the air what they believe, or not. Your freedom is to get the Dish network if you don't like it. Don't you think one of the most offensive things you could do to another person is to silence them because they don't say just what you want to hear.Should a church be permitted to own a major network affiliate like the Mormons own the Salt Lake NBC station?
When the New Orleans Diocese owned WWL radio and television, the stations were at their finest in objective news reporting and allowed local black churches to purchase Sunday morning air time during segregation. So that was a positive effect. When the Vatican forced the diocese to sell off the stations, we were under the blabbering of Rush Limbaugh within weeks.



When I lived in Biloxi, the local ABC station decided to not air NYPD Blue. TV stations in neighboring Mobile and New Orleans had huge ratings jumps as coastal Mississippians tuned in.
As long as this is a free country under the Constitution, yes.



By the way, considering your passion, do you also complain when your local newspaper includes some Associated Press wire content but not others? Do you protest when they publish editorials that you don't agree with while "ignoring" editorials by national columnists who do agree with you?



Or do you only complain when you want to discriminate against religious groups? Do you also want the federal government to abandon "shall make no law" Constitutional principles by depriving a religious group of ownership rights otherwise granted to other parties? Someone of extreme values might assume that you are an intolerant bigot who complains when a business entity or organization makes decisions which are impacted by their ethical and religious beliefs.
The LDS church pays taxes so don't fret about what it does. What is the difference about who owns the station anyhow? With cable tv you can watch anything you want by switching the channel. If you find it offensive, don't watch. It's not like the LDS church is solicitating for your money like other preachers do for a living, then go and scandalize themselves with other peoples' money.
We have a free market, anyone can buy a TV station if they want to. If you don't like it, then dont watch it, or get a competing station. You sound like a Nazi by saying that the Government should tell them that they can not own a station and it should be taken away.
CBS and ABC don't air SNL either. I always end up watching it on CW.



If you ask me, I personally like KSL just because the people are familiar, and they do more interesting new stories than the CBS and ABC and FOX local news shows, but I can definitely see LDS bias in some of their reporting.
yes...and by secular owning the stations not permitting religious shows on the air can be offensive too...so your "rights" or feelings are more important than the religious community...besides owning a station isn't illegal...are you proposing separation of everything in society and church...you are a bigot...
Why shouldn't anyone be able to own anything they want to?



If you have a problem with programming, write to the station.
Organized religion IS big business. Why not be open about it?
No,that is not necessary
Do not question god's will!



I certainly hope that they are at least paying their taxes
people can go satellite and watch all the SNL they like
I think you're touching on the idea of separation of church and state, however an NBC station is not considered a state government, so if a church wants to own it that is their incentive. If you think this is an infringement on a person's personal choices through the influence of the news station mixed in with a religious view you have the choice to boycott them. On a societal scale we should understand what problems this is causing. You say it is offensive to for one group to make choices for another, and that is the very basis of most of the religions that have grown up around society. The alternative should be a pluralism where differing views can take substance. In a sense it is, since not every Christian church is a Mormon church. So when you think about it there is equal opinion in all endeavors, and if you really wanted to you could set out to make a dominant institution that challenged the Mormon church. But I sense that your real problem lies in the fact that you mistrust Mormonism, which basically means you should stay away from it.



if someone in SLC wants to watch SNL they can always get the internet. The price of internet is about the same as cable, so if cable is censored might as well get what is not censored.