Adoption of the FCC Order
Interpretation and Review of Media Ownership Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted an order on June 2, 2003, that modified five of its media ownership rules and retained two others. Changes in these rules — which set limits on national television ownership, newspaper-broadcast and radio-television cross-ownership in a market, and ownership of multiple television or radio stations in a market — could have far-reaching effects. Court Interpretation of the Telecommunications Act The Commission had to revisit several of its broadcast ownership rules as a result of court rulings that the Commission had failed to provide sufficient justification for specific thresholds incorporated into the rules. In addition,…
