FCC Traveling to Tampa for April 20 Media Ownership Workshop

The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau announced its next media ownership workshop on April 20, 2010 in Tampa (FL).

The workshop will explore any benefits and harms of newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership and the impact these combinations have on competition and diversity in the media marketplace. The one-panel forum will discuss, among other issues:

• How newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership affects competition in the local media marketplace;
• To what extent, if any, cross-ownership affects the production of news and public affairs content; and
• Whether cross-owned combinations impact the quantity, quality, diversity, and responsiveness of local news and public affairs programming and if so, how.