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Supreme Court Won’t Examine Media Ownership Rules

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Media companies, in general, want to be able to own lots of other media companies, regardless of whether these companies compete in the same market. But broadcasters and newspaper companies [...]


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Court Tosses FCC’s Cross-Ownership Rule

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Opponents of media consolidation won a big victory Thursday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tossed the Federal Communications Commission's rule that loosened the ban on newspaper-broadcast [...]

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FCC Finally Making Some Progress on Media Ownership Rules

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With all the focus on broadband at the Federal Communications Commission, it's easy to forget that the regulator's quadrennial review of its media ownership rules, originally scheduled for 2010, is [...]