Senate Aims to Stall FCC's Martin

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WASHINGTON A Senate committee approved legislation Tuesday designed to slow a move by FCC chairman Kevin Martin to ease the general ban prohibiting a single company from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same market.

The legislation pushed by Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Trent Lott, R-Miss., would delay for at least six months Martin’s attempt to eviscerate the rule in the nation’s biggest markets.

Dorgan accused Martin of harboring an “obsession” to allow more concentration of media ownership.



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