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Submitted: February 14, 2007 - 9:22am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:52am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 5:52am
FCC WILL INVESTIGATE CBS'S ATTEMPT TO CONSOLIDATE NEWSROOMS
[SOURCE: Rep Maurice Hinchey press release]
In response to a request from Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and two of his House colleagues, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced that it has launched an investigation into the negotiations between the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and the Writers Guild of America, East and west. In August 2006, Hinchey and his colleagues asked the FCC to look into CBS's desire to consolidate newsrooms, terminate workers in the event of mergers, and remove news producers from bargaining units, thus enabling corporate interests to infiltrate the newsroom. Since then, CBS has conceded and taken the issue of removing news producers from bargaining units off the table in negotiations, but the consolidation issue remains.
http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/021307FCCCBSWritersGuildLetter.html
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