FCC Grants Transfer of Control of Fox Television Stations to Fox Entertainment Group

FCC GRANTS TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF FOX TELEVISION STATIONS TO FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
[SOURCE: Federal Communications Commission]
The FCC has acted favorably on a request from Rupert Murdoch to transfer control of Fox Television Stations to Fox Entertainment Group. The Commission granted the applicants' requests for the following: waiver of the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership prohibition to permit the continued ownership of WWOR-TV, WNYW(TV), and The New York Post; and waiver of the local ownership rule for station KFCT(TV), Fort Collins, Colorado to continue to operate as a satellite of station KDVR(TV), Denver, Colorado. The Commission also granted applicants' request for waiver of the local ownership rule and grant applicants a permanent waiver of the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership prohibition to permit continued ownership of The New York Post and WNYW(TV), and a temporary waiver of the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership prohibition to permit continued ownership of The New York Post and WWOR-TV.
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