Broadcasters move to block media-ownership rule changes

[Rose Siding]

Broadcasters move to block media-ownership rule changes

WASHINGTON -- Legal challenges to a Federal Communications Commission overhaul of media ownership rules emerged yesterday, with the regulations under fire both for allowing too few and too many mergers.

The filings with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia were triggered by the publication of the FCC's final rules in the Federal Register on Tuesday.

The regulations will go into effect Sept. 4.

The Republican-dominated FCC eased decades-old rules governing ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations June 2. That party-line vote approved changes that allow a single company to own TV stations reaching nearly half the nation's viewers and combinations of newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same area.

The National Association of Broadcasters said the changes don't go far enough...........

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/134009_mediaownership07.html

[w4rma]

1. roll those BLASTED changes back! GE has too much power already. (n/t)