Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $12,693
15%  
Woo hoo!! And now less than $300 to reach 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: mediamonopolies

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • FCC May Revise Ownership Rules (ease up on ownership limits even more)

    09/11/2002 11:40:58 AM PDT · by weegee · 47 replies · 307+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | Wed Sep 11, 9:14 AM ET | By DAVID HO, Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators will take a new look at rules limiting ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations, with an eye toward loosening restrictions. The Federal Communications Commission ( news - web sites) is scheduled to begin a rule-making process Thursday that is widely expected to produce new regulations that will make it easier for large media companies to merge. "The clear direction of this is deregulation," said Blair Levin, a former FCC ( news - web sites) official and now an analyst with Legg Mason. Levin said the agency will have to address whether eased regulations...