The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) — along with companies like Media General, Tribune, and Media News Group — can’t wait for the FCC to act on cross-ownership. Since 1975, the FCC has not ...

Two days after the FCC cast its controversial 3-2 vote along partisan lines to rewrite media ownership regulations, the full commission appeared today before the Senate Commerce Committee to answer ...

WASHINGTON — The FCC is sorting through several thousand filings on its media ownership rules. Some 10,000 public filings were made between mid-June and early January, for example. An item to ...

The Federal Communications Commission withdrew from consideration a review of an agency rule that prohibits a company from owning a newspaper and TV station in the same market. A handful of big media ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast ...

If consolidation of media ownership is such a bad thing, there should be empirical evidence of the harm, said the National Association of Broadcasters in comments filed with the FCC. In fact, it ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- The public may get more and better news programming if federal regulations are changed to allow newspapers to own radio and television stations, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Monday ...

WASHINGTON — A divided Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday temporarily called off reviewing a cross-ownership rule banning a broadcaster from owning a newspaper in the same market. Late last ...

Tribune Co. asked a federal appeals court to allow mergers between newspapers and broadcast stations in markets with at least nine television stations. The motion follows a June 24 decision by the 3rd ...

The Federal Communications Commission is set to take a controversial vote. The five commissioners will tackle whether a single media company can own a TV or radio station and a newspaper in the same ...