FCC to Launch Wide-Ranging NOI on Media Ownership Regs

The five members of the Federal Communications Commission are currently considering a wide-ranging notice of inquiry (NOI) on media ownership regulations. The Notice would tee up different ways to measure ownership and look at how the FCC has dealt with diversity and competition and localism in the past. It also notes that there are separate localism, diversity and future of journalism proceedings going on at the same time, said a source, and instructs commenters in those proceedings that if they file in this proceeding "make the connection to ownership structure."