[opendtv] FCC Drops Bid to Relax Media Rules

FCC Drops Bid to Relax Media Rules
Agency Sought Fewer Limits on Ownership

By Frank Ahrens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 28, 2005; Page A01

The Bush administration yesterday abandoned plans to ask the Supreme 
Court to allow a set of controversial rules to take effect that would 
have loosened restrictions on how large media conglomerates could 
grow.

The decision disappointed big media companies that had lobbied 
heavily in support of the rules and thrilled those who had fought to 
keep tighter rein on how much control one company should have over 
television, newspapers and radio stations in individual markets.

The Federal Communications Commission, which had adopted the proposed 
rules in a hotly contested, 3 to 2, party-line vote in June 2003, now 
must decide whether to start anew on rules governing media 
consolidation or to re-argue its case before a lower court that the 
current proposals should be approved.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42134-2005Jan27.html

 
 
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