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Crs Report for Congress : FCC Media Ownership Rules: Issues for Congress: September 17, 2003 - Rl31925. Charles B Goldfarb

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Author: Charles B Goldfarb
Page Count: 26 pages
Published Date: 04 Nov 2013
Publisher: Bibliogov
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781294250463
File Name: Crs.Report.for.Congress.FCC.Media.Ownership.Rules.Issues.for.Congress.September.17,.2003.-.Rl31925.pdf
Download Link: Crs Report for Congress FCC Media Ownership Rules Issues for Congress September 17, 2003 - Rl31925
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The Federal Communications Commission adopted an order on June 2, 2003 that modified five of its media ownership rules and retained two others. The new rules were scheduled to go into effect on September 4, 2003, but on September 3, 2003 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit stayed implementation of the new rules pending adjudication of claims that the rules are unlawful. The FCC action was taken to meet the requirement in the 1996 Telecommunications Act to perform a biennial review and to be responsive to Court rulings that the Commission had failed to provide sufficient justification for specific thresholds incorporated in two of the rules. The modified media ownership rules are as follows: (1) A broadcast network can now own and operate local broadcast stations that reach, in total, up to 45 percent of U.S. television households (National Television Ownership Rule). The old limit was 35 percent. (2) Both newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership and television-radio crossownership are: unrestricted in markets with nine or more television stations; allowed subject to certain restrictions in markets with between four and eight television stations; and prohibited in markets with three or fewer television stations. (3) A company can own three television stations ...

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