FCC Media Ownership

FCC vote lifting cross-ownership ban shows agency still doesn’t get it

Posted on December 18, 2007 - 10:40pm.

For Immediate Release
Dec. 18, 2007

Contact: Mary Boyle
(202) 736-5770

FCC vote lifting cross-ownership ban shows agency still doesn’t get it

WASHINGTON -- Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to remove the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning a broadcast station in the same market.

Common Cause President Bob Edgar made the following comment:

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Does Congress Have the Resolve to Disapprove of Big Media?

Posted on December 18, 2007 - 10:39pm.

Does Congress Have the Resolve
to Disapprove of Big Media?

By Scott Sanders and Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Chicago Media Action
12/18/07

Chicago Media Action (CMA) is dismayed at the FCC's repeal of the
TV-newspaper cross-ownership rule. The FCC has ignored nearly unanimous
public input opposing media concentration -- including hundreds of
Chicagoans who attended a September 2007 FCC hearing in Chicago to

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New Ownership Rules Threaten Diversity

Posted on December 18, 2007 - 10:38pm.

New Ownership Rules Threaten Diversity,
Necessitate Clearer Public Interest Obligations

Acting on a remand by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Prometheus Radio Project, et al. v. FCC., 373 F.3d 372 (2004), the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) majority today decided to lift the ban on common ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same local communities. The following comments can be attributed to Charles Benton, Chairman and CEO of the Benton Foundation and member of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee:

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FCC Chairman Martin Proposes Local Boards of ‘Good and Great’

Posted on December 18, 2007 - 8:02am.

from: Media-Space-Place-Network

FCC Chairman Martin Proposes Local Boards of ‘Good and Great’

From Fred Johnson Blog, December 17, 2007

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is indulging in one of the FCC’s oldest, time honored traditions: making a lot of noise about “localism” and local programming, while creating policies that are destined to have the opposite effect.

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Free Press Study Says Minority Media Ownership Down

Posted on November 28, 2007 - 8:28am.

from: TV Newsday

Study Says Minority Media Ownership Down

November 28, 2007

Free Press today released Out of the Picture 2007, an update of the group’s Out of the Picture study completed last year that assessed female and minority ownership of commercial broadcast TV stations. The new data, Free Press says, suggests that the future of minority TV station ownership is in jeopardy.

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Senate Commerce Committee Tees Up FCC-Blocking Bill

Posted on November 28, 2007 - 8:25am.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

Senate Commerce Committee Tees Up FCC-Blocking Bill

Media Ownership Act of 2007 Would Prevent Martin’s Dec. 18 Cross-Ownership Vote

By John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable, 11/27/2007 4:23:00 PM

The Senate Commerce Committee set Dec. 4 as the date to mark up (amend, debate and perhaps vote on) a bill that would effectively block Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin from holding a Dec. 18 vote on relaxing the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban.

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Public Interest Groups Call for Media Diversity and Localism in FCC Meeting

Posted on November 26, 2007 - 9:36pm.

For Immediate Release: Monday, November 26, 2007

Contact: Beth McConnell, 267-918-7207 bmcconnell@media-democracy.net

From: Media and Democracy Coalition

Public Interest Groups Call for Media Diversity and Localism in FCC Meeting

FCC should make consistent policies across cable and broadcast rules to promote public interest principles.

A coalition of organizations called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at its November 27th meeting to make consistent policies promoting media diversity and localism across broadcast and cable rules. The Coalition praised the Commission's efforts to clear the way for limits on cable ownership and the promotion of diverse and local content. However, the Coalition warned that the community radio rules on the agenda must promote, not limit, the expansion of the very low-power radio service they purport to promote. Further, the Coalition also called the localism and minority ownership proposals to be considered by the FCC grossly inadequate.

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FCC Sets Ownership Hearing for Seattle

Posted on November 5, 2007 - 6:56am.

Note: Reclaim the Media in Seattle is organizing for the hearing and is holding workshops all this week to help people prepare to give testimony.

from: TV Newsday

FCC Sets Ownership Hearing for Seattle

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House Sets Media Ownership Hearing for Dec. 6

Posted on November 5, 2007 - 6:54am.

from: TV Newsday

House Sets Media Ownership Hearing for Dec. 6

November 2, 2007

The Committee on Energy and Commerce announced today that it will hold a hearing on Thursday, Dec. 6, to explore issues relating to media ownership and the FCC’s pending media ownership proceeding. The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will jointly preside over the hearing.

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Senate Commerce Committee to Hold Localism Hearing Nov. 8

Posted on November 3, 2007 - 10:16am.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

D.C. Not Quite Done with Media-Ownership Hearings
Senate Commerce Committee to Hold Localism-Topped Media-Ownership Hearing Nov. 8

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/1/2007 4:27:00 PM

It turns out that the Federal Communications Commission's sixth and last localism hearing wasn't the last one after all.

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