Copps Cautions FCC Against Being Over-Hasty on Media Ownership Rules

COPPS CAUTIONS FCC AGAINST BEING OVER-HASTY ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULES
[SOURCE: TVWeek, AUTHOR: Ira Teinowitz]
FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps has suggested the agency is starting to speed up in the pace of its examination of new media-ownership rules and warning that some important questions about minority media ownership need to be resolved before any rules are proposed. He also issued a second warning about any attempt to alter the FCC’s cross-ownership rule that prevents newspapers and broadcasters from buying each other in the same market before the rest of the ownership rules. Commissioner Copps said the Commission’s failure to review minority ownership issues in its last look at ownership was a big focus of an appellate court ruling that overturned the rules. He said the FCC needs to take steps to ensure minority owners “need to have a seat at the table” when the commission addresses new rules.
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