US SENATORS TRY TO BLOCK THE FCC’S PROPOSED EASING OF MEDIA CROSS-OWNERSHIP LAWS
December 19th 2007 00:54
Bloomberg reports that a bipartisan group of 25 US senators told the top American telecommunications regulator, Kevin Martin, to delay a vote on his plan to loosen restrictions on newspaper publishers owning broadcast stations.
The Federal Communications Commission has no comment on the letter, said Mary Diamond, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Lawmakers will act to ``revoke and nullify'' any easing of the cross-ownership rule that the Federal Communications Commission passes at its meeting tomorrow, the senators said in a letter to FCC chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican.
- From MediaBlab
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