Free Press thinks FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell is “flat out wrong”...
Free Press thinks FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell is “flat out wrong” to back an end to a ban on combining a radio or TV station with a daily newspaper in the same market, as a way to possibly help minorities…
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and women increase ownership of media, Policy Director Matt Wood said. “These protections are one of the only things preventing even more media concentration. As long as the FCC continues to sit on its hands instead of promoting diversity in broadcast ownership, the market will always be an uneven playing field for women and people of color. These are the voices that have been crowded out by runaway consolidation and by decades of discrimination in the capital markets.” McDowell on Thursday at a National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters conference reiterated his support for ending the cross-ownership ban, a policy change which Commissioner Ajit Pai also backed a day earlier (CD Sept 28 p18). Wood commented in an email after McDowell spoke.