FCC Media-Ownership Push Meets Resistance

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Lawmaker calls for hearings as June 2 deadline approaches

As the Federal Communications Commission’s drive to ease media-ownership rules steamrolls to a vote, opposition is digging in to keep some of the current broadcast rules in place.

Two bills to maintain the 35 percent broadcast-ownership cap have been introduced in Congress. What is more, Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, D-S.C., in a May 15 letter signed by eight other lawmakers, has asked Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain, R-Ariz.,



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