Administrative/Regulatory
Mar. 12, 2014
Policy suggestion for media ownership review: first, do no harm
The FCC appears to be considering near-term action to tighten one aspect of its oversight responsibilities - an action that would be both piecemeal and possibly harmful to the industry and consumers. By Richard E. Wiley
The Federal Communications Commission has a number of media ownership rules on its books, many of which have been around for a long time. For example, during my tenure as chairman of the commission in the mid-1970s, the agency adopted rules prohibiting the common ownership of a newspaper and radio or television stations in the same market - restrictions that, whatever their justification almost four decades ago, are today badly outmoded and co...
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