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The United Church of Christ reiterated it’s concerned media ownership...

The United Church of Christ reiterated it’s concerned media ownership rules could be relaxed before the FCC completes its studies on the information needs of communities, UCC said in an ex parte filing in docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/boc3rj). UCC said it’s…

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also concerned that the current proposals aimed at overcoming disadvantage aren’t ready to be adopted with speed. The FCC hasn’t fully developed a record “to the effectiveness of a small business preference and thus it did not seem an effective means to promote ownership diversity,” it said a lawyer for the group told an aide to Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. The American Cable Association asked the commission to “recognize the practice of separately owned, same market” TV stations coordinating their retransmission consent negotiations creates an “attributable interest under existing broadcast ownership rules,” ACA reported a lawyer told Rosenworcel’s aide (http://xrl.us/boc3t4).