Today, the News Media Alliance filed an appeal of the FCC’s inexplicable decision to keep in place media ownership rules that prevent a television or radio station from being co-owned with a newspaper in the same market.
“After 41 years of abiding by a rule that has long outlived its purpose, we have been forced to fight the FCC’s decision in court,” said David Chavern, President and CEO of the News Media Alliance. “Our industry provides long-term investigative journalism and local news and public affairs coverage that is intensely important to local communities. It makes no sense at all to prevent newspapers from helping to fund this essential activity by receiving capital and collaboration by an aligned industry such as broadcasting.”
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