It submitted the comments to the Federal Communications Commission as part of the public comment process now ongoing while the commission undertakes its latest quadrennial review of broadcast ownership regulations.
According to WGAE: "Simply permitting television, radio, internet, or newspaper outlets to combine will inevitably result in less substance, in the absence of clearly defined requirements that specific levels of resources be devoted to journalism."
The FCC is looking at a number of rules, including TV and radio station ownership caps in individual markets, cross-ownership regulations that forbid one company's owning a TV station and a newspaper in the same market without a waiver (horizontal organization), and the dual network rule that prohibits common ownership of any of the top four broadcast nets. Media companies have argued that the proliferation of new media outlets has heightened competition and make the current rules outdated.
Amen!
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