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WASHINGTON One of Congress’ leading Federal Communications Commission critics introduced legislation Wednesday that would undo recent FCC action easing the ban forbidding a company from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same city.
The so-called “legislative veto” is being pushed by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. It would rescind the FCC’s December decision to allow newspaper-broadcast combinations in the nation’s top 20 markets. At the same time the FCC gave the green light to newspaper-broadcast combos in the nation’s biggest markets, it gave permanent waivers to the cross-ownership ban in 42 situations and made it easier to win waivers for newspaper-broadcast combinations in smaller markets.
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