Media Ownership Rules in Limbo

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The Prometheus Radio Project was back in court Thursday, hoping to convince a panel of three federal judges to crank up the way back machine and reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to loosen the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership.

The cross-ownership rule, which dates back to 1975—before the days of cable and the Internet—was last altered in 2007, to allow a single company to own both a newspaper and a radio or TV station in the top 20 markets.

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