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... SMALL BUSINESSESThe FCC's new TV and radio ownership rules may result in a number of situations where current ownership arrangements exceed ownership limits. The FCC grand-fathered owners of those clusters, but generally prohibited the sale of such above-cap clusters. The FCC made a limited exception to permit ...
The following is the entire prepared statement from FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps dissenting on the agency's proposal to ease media ownership rules, and his bench remarks following the vote.
The following is the entire press statement from FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein dissenting on the agency's majority vote to ease broadcast ownership rules.
The following is the entire prepared statement from FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy on the agency's vote on June 2.
FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his two fellow Republican commissioners, Kathleen Abernathy and Kevin Martin, voted to relax several longtime restrictions, which previously limited the number of newspapers, television outlets and radio stations that one company could own in specific markets and nationwide. The FCC's new rules lift the ...
It was the district court decision that the FCC for its own reasons decided not to appeal. I have no idea why they didn't appeal it. In any event all they were required to do was justify reasonable ownership limits. What did they do instead? They held their nose ...
FCC commissioners Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps asked Powell on Tuesday to delay the June 2 vote, so they could "examine [the] public interest implications" of lifting current restrictions on corporate ownership of media companies. Copps and Adelstein -- the two Democrats on the five-member board -- said the proposed rule ...
R. ROBERT OKUN: Well, I think what has to happen is one needs to remember that the courts have kicked back these rules now to the FCC. The court said the number they had was frankly arbitrary and capricious. The FCC now in this rulemaking which everyone is focused for ...
The Senate Commerce Committee, which maintains congressional oversight of the FCC, convened a panel of media executives and representatives from public interest groups to examine the issues regarding the upcoming FCC vote on media ownership. The Senate panel hearing comes less than 24 hours after the five commissioners received the ...
... cautioned that "the decision grants the incumbent monopolies far more deregulation than warranted." The former Bells did score a victory of their own during the FCC session. In another split vote, the FCC moved to ease regulations forcing the Bells to provide their competitors discount access to fiber-optic lines ...
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