Fox Calls for the Removal of all FCC Media Ownership Rules
FOX CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF ALL FCC MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULES (EXCEPT FOR THE RULE FOX LIKES)
[SOURCE: Lasar's Letter on the FCC, AUTHOR: Matthew Lasar]
Arguing that the Internet has completely changed the media landscape, two Fox media companies have asked the FCC to eliminate its media ownership rules "once and for all." Except for the UHF discount on the national TV station ownership cap. Fox argues for elimination of the local TV ownership rule and the newspaper/broadcast station crossownership bans. "[T]he media marketplace of 2006 has become so robustly competitive," Fox Entertainment Group and Fox Television Holdings' October 23rd public filing concludes, "and offers so many diverse voices on subjects too numerous to count, that the broadcast ownership rules cannot possibly survive the scrutiny required by" law.
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