Newspaper Guild: Keep Media Cross-Ownership Ban

The Newspaper Guild is urging the Federal Communications Commission not to relax its rules limiting same-market common ownership of a newspaper and broadcast property. Loosening the 35-year cross-ownership rules will only lead to more consolidation, the Guild argues in a joint submission to the FCC with the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET). And consolidation, the CWA-affiliated unions argue, is at odds with the aim of the FCC's quadrennial review of media ownership rules, which is to promote media diversity, competition and localism.