Beyond Media Ownership, FCC Passes Package of Items

BEYOND MEDIA OWNERSHIP, FCC PASSES PACKAGE OF ITEMS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday passed a package of items that could be labeled the corollaries of the vote earlier in the day to loosen newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules. One was a package of initiatives to make it easier for small businesses and, by extension, women and minorities to own broadcast outlets. The other was a series of proposals addressing broadcast localism, including tentatively requiring broadcasters to demonstrate that they are carrying a minimum amount of local programming. Those, combined with the cross-ownership decision, effectively closed the FCC’s media-ownership-rule review, although court challenges and congressional pushback loom large in the picture.
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