How was it that It's a Wonderful Life went from a local TV free-for-all to only airing during the holidays on NBC for most of the past three decades?  In search of the answer, the podcast unearths a never-before-told story that up-ends many of the broadly-held assumptions and reveals much about the Potter-dominated state of modern media.  Generally, once a piece of art falls into the public domain, it stays there forever.  Not so with Wonderful Life, now claimed by Paramount Global and long the exclusive television domain of Comcast’s NBC Universal.  What happened in 1993 to take “the People’s movie" back?  What does it tell us about the effects of a broader corporate trend towards consolidation and monopoly that was the dominant strategy of iconic villain Henry F. Potter?  SaveGeorgeBailey.com

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