The Associated Press
By JOHN DUNBAR
October 02, 2006
The Federal Communications Commission kicks off the first of six planned public hearings Tuesday to discuss a number of broadcast ownership rules, including whether a single company should be able to own both a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
The hearing takes place in Los Angeles, a city where the Tribune Co. owns both the Los Angeles Times and KTLA-TV, Channel 5. Tribune is hoping the FCC will eliminate the ban, but just in case, has asked the agency for a waiver so it can renew its broadcast license and retain ownership of both properties. The station license expires Dec. 1.
The last time the agency revisited the ownership rules was in 2003, when it voted 3-2 to raise the national audience cap for television station owners, lessen restrictions on how many radio and television stations a company may own in the same market and allow for cross-ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in some instances.
The decision sparked a popular revolt, congressional action and a federal appeals court decision that resulted in most of the rules being sent back to the agency for reconsideration.
Jump to Story
Hello SBStarFreePress,
ReplyDeleteThank you for adding the link, and a link back to your publication has already been created here.
As for the pressmen's hat, visit our directions on making your own hat at http://www.edpadgett.com/blog/2006/05/making-printers-hat.html
With the smaller format most newspapers now have, making a pressmen's hat is difficult, unless you have a very small head.
Ed