Two owners of same-market daily newspapers and radio stations want...
Two owners of same-market daily newspapers and radio stations want the FCC to approve a draft order that would allow new instances of such common ownership. Bonneville International and Scranton Times had “hoped that the FCC would go even further”…
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than the draft to change “all of its outdated ownership regulations,” they said in a news release Thursday. “The potential impact of the draft order apparently would be quite modest. But we believe that, at the very least, the record before the FCC on newspaper/radio issues requires the lifting of that rule, and we hope the five commissioners will soon act on it.” The companies filed last Friday (http://xrl.us/bn9szm) what agency officials have said likely will be the last round of comments on ownership before the draft is perhaps changed and then voted on (CD Jan 8 p4).