FCC Statement: “Today, we complete the most exhaustive and comprehensive review of our broadcast ownership rules ever undertaken.”
FCC Chairman Powell lays out three goals:
- Reinstating legally enforceable broadcast ownership limits that promote diversity, localism and competition.
- Building modern rules that take proper account of the explosion of new media outlets for news, information and entertainment, rather than perpetuate the graying rules of a bygone black and white era
- Striking a careful balance that does not unduly limit transactions that promote the public interest, while ensuring that no company can monopolize the medium
FCC Review of the broadcast rules
<a href=“http://www.sarahstirland.com/archives/mediacon.htm>Big Media’s Big 5
NY Times: F.C.C. Votes to Relax Rules Limiting Media Ownership
Washington Post: FCC Votes to Ease Media Ownership Rules
San Jose Mercury’s Dan Gillmor: FCC’s Powell must be held to his word
Neil Pollack: Who Cares Who Owns The Media?
