Jackson Takes Aim At Murdoch Stations

JACKSON TAKES AIM AT MURDOCH STATIONS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the United Church of Christ have filed petitions to deny News Corp. license renewals in New York. "Fox's common ownership of The New York Post, WNYW-TV and WWOR-TV harms me by sharply reducing the number of independent voices available to me," wrote the Rev. Sherry M. Taylor, from UCC's Central Atlantic Conference in New Jersey, in the petition. "Unless the licenses are denied, my right to access diverse programming will continue to be harmed." News Corp. has a waiver of the broadcast/newspaper crossownership rule to own both the stations and The New York Post. UCC and Rainbow are asking the FCC to rescind the waiver, which would make the stations automatically in violation of the crossownership ban.
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