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FCC Defends Cross-Ownership Stay

  • B&C, Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:03 PM
The FCC says the stay on its current partial lifting of the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership should remain in place and court challenges to that order held, arguing it is bound to be superseded by a new decision, from new commissioners, based on a changed media marketplace. Broadcasters say the FCC is stalling and that the court needs to move. Broadcasters weighing in include Fox, CBS, Belo, Gannett, Media General, and NAB.

The FCC's media ownership rules have been in limbo for more than a half-decade and the 2008 rules change under FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has never gone into effect, one of the reasons broadcasters had asked the court to hear the case and lift the stay. The agency says such actions are useless, since a now-Democratic majority will devise new rules.

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