Unlawful On Its Face’: FCC Eliminates Cap on TV Ownership Rule
The Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate a rule Thursday that stopped any one company from owning so many TV stations that they reach more than 39% of American households. The idea is that no single company should be able to broadcast to an overwhelming share of the U.S. population under the theory that it reduces broadcasting competition and allows just a handful of powerful people to dominate the national conversation. FCC claims that it’s just aligning its rules to the current market realities, going so far as to insist this will be in the public interest, a laughable claim in an age of hyper-consolidation of media companies.
- ▪The Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate a rule Thursday that stopped any one company from owning so many TV stations that they reach more than 39% of American households.
- ▪The idea is that no single company should be able to broadcast to an overwhelming share of the U.S. population under the theory that it reduces broadcasting competition and allows just a handful of powerful people to dominate the national c
- ▪FCC claims that it’s just aligning its rules to the current market realities, going so far as to insist this will be in the public interest, a laughable claim in an age of hyper-consolidation of media companies.
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The Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate a rule Thursday that stopped any one company from owning so many TV stations that they reach more than 39% of American households. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a close ally of President Donald Trump, had been an advocate of the move but the lone Democratic commissioner says that only Congress can scrap the rule.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000795558","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"politics","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"politics","TAGS":"breandan-carr,fcc","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The 39% rule was established in…
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