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from: Washington Post

Senator Seeks to Overturn FCC Media Ownership Rule

From Reuters, March 5, 2008
By Peter Kaplan

A senior Democratic senator on Wednesday introduced a resolution aimed at overturning a decision by regulators that loosened media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

They're Back! Prometheus Asks Court to Vacate Ownership-Rule Change
Group Says Decision Was Arbitrary and Capricious and Beyond the FCC's Authority
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/26/2008 4:27:00 PM

As promised, anti-media consolidation activists asked a federal court to throw out the Federal Communications Commission's recent media-ownership decision.

from: MultiChannel News

The Winds of Change
Potential Reform of FCC Could Go in Many Directions
by Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 1/28/2008

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is shining a spotlight on FCC chairman Kevin Martin’s management of the agency. (See “Watching the Martin Watch,” page 18, Jan. 21, 2008).

from: Lasar's Letter

The Good FCC
by Matthew Lasar Dec 21 2007 - 11:22am Politics

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission, by a bare majority, voted to lift its over three decade old prohibition against an entity owning a newspaper and a television station in the same market. Most FCC watchers will now shift their visors to Congress and the circuit courts, where media reform activists will doubtless turn in a bid to reverse this ruling.

from: NY Times

December 19, 2007
F.C.C. Reshapes Rules Limiting Media Industry
By STEPHEN LABATON

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission approved two new rules on Tuesday that are likely to reshape the nation’s media landscape by setting new parameters for the size and scope of the largest news and cable companies.

Note: While unleashing media cross-ownership in their other ruling, the FCC wisely curtailed the growth of cable companies.

from: MulitChannel News

FCC Adopts 30% Cable Ownership Cap
Move Stops Comcast From Acquiring More Cable Systems
By Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 12/18/2007 3:47:00 PM

The FCC Voted: Time to Raise Hell

By Josh Silver

Today, Bush-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin rammed through a 3-2 partisan vote to remove the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in the same market. Witness yet another shining moment: the Bush administration serving up a wholesale giveaway to the largest media corporations in the most corrupt process imaginable.

It wasn't a surprise, we are now accustomed to the FCC voting on significant orders under the cover of the holidays when mainstream media coverage of such obscure political issues is at a minimum (not to mention media self-interest). It was this time last year that the FCC drove a spike into PEG, and only this past Halloween that they drove another (quite literally crucifying PEG to a company owned telephone pole). Today Chairman Martin pushed through the media ownership changes that had been overwhelmingly rejected in public hearings around the country over the course of the past year

Dec. 18, 2007
For Immediate Release

Contact:
Jen Howard, Free Press, (202) 265-1490, x22
FCC's New Media Rules Worse than Advertised
StopBigMedia.com pledges to 'raise hell' in Congress and the courts

WASHINGTON -- The new media ownership rules passed by a 3-to-2, party-line vote at the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday are far worse for the public interest -- and more favorable to Big Media companies -- than anything FCC Chairman Kevin Martin previously revealed to the public.

UCC media justice advocates condemn FCC decision to relax ownership rules
http://www.ucc.org/news/ucc-media-justice-advocates.html

Written by staff and wire reports
December 18, 2007

The UCC's Office of Communication, Inc. – the UCC's media justice agency -- is decrying a Dec. 18 decision by the Federal Communications Commission to relax its 32-year-old cross-media ownership rule, allowing companies in the largest markets nationally to own both print and broadcast media outlets.