The U.S. Supreme Court
announced Oct. 2 that it will hear petitions filed by the Federal
Communications Commission and a group of industry stakeholders seeking to
reinstate the FCC’s steps to modernize the country’s media ownership rules,
including the repeal of a 1970s-era rule that prohibits common ownership of a
newspaper and a TV or radio station in the same market. The FCC’s changes were
overturned last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on
procedural grounds.
The News Media Alliance was among the stakeholders
mentioned above. “We commend the Supreme Court for deciding to hear these
important cases,” said News Media Alliance President & CEO David Chavern in
a statement on the organization’s website. “The media cross ownership rule is
derived from a bygone era that no longer exists in today’s diverse media
landscape.”
The appeals court panel that preserved the cross-ownership
rule is the same one that agreed with the FCC in 2003 that the ban was no
longer in the public interest and in 2017 admonished the FCC for failing to act
to revise it, says the News Media Alliance.
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