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Who Can Own What
THESE SIX FCC RULES ON OWNERSHIP
ARE UP FOR REVIEW:

1. Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Prohibition. Bans common ownership of a newspaper and TV station in the same local market.


2. National Television Ownership rule. Bars a TV network from owning local stations that reach more than 35 percent of the national TV households.


3. Local TV Multiple Ownership rule. Bans common ownership of more than one of the top four TV stations in a market.


4. Radio/TV Ownership rule. Limits the number of TV and radio stations any one entity can own in a single market.


5. Local Radio Ownership. Limits the number of radio stations any one entity can own in a single market.


6. Dual Television Network rule. Bars merger among any of the top four TV networks.


MAY/JUNE 2003
SPECIAL REPORT:
Covering The War
  • To Die For
  • The New Standard
  • The War On TV
  • Dispatches: Dillow,
    Massing, Donvan,
    Shadid, Daragahi,
    Stevenson, Laurence,
    Arnot, Burnett
  • Soundtrack For War
  • 'Any Word?'
  • ARTICLES

  • A 'Learning Newspaper'
  • The Other War
  • Defining News in the Mideast
  • VOICES

  • John R. MacArthur
    Lies We Bought
  • Rhonda Roumani
    One War, Two Channels
  • Jonathan A. Knee
    False Alarm At The FCC
  • John Hatcher
    Passion On The Local Level
  • Liz Cox
    The Bias Busters' Ball
  • BOOKS

  • Shooting Under Fire
    Regarding The Pain of Others
  • Book Reports
  • CURRENTS

  • War And The Letters Page
  • Dateline Everywhere?
  • Role Model: Sarah McClendon
  • DEPARTMENTS

  • Opening Shot
  • Comment
  • Darts & Laurels
  • Spotlight
  • Letters
  • The American Newsroom
  • The Lower Case
  • WEB EXCLUSIVES

  • Newsroom Diversity
  • Bragg Suspended
  • Theater of the Times