And to the surprise of no one, the FCC has a proposal in its November 16 meeting to modify its media ownership rules. And also not a surprise, they will act on an Order of Reconsideration to change the rules.
The order will do as follows:
To eliminate the 42-year Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership rule; and to eliminate the Radio-Television Cross-Owership rule.
It will modify the Local Television Ownership Rule by eliminating the Eight-Voices Test, and add a case-by-case option in the Top-Four Prohibition rule (but it won't eliminate the top-four rule completely).
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