F.C.C. Relaxes Media Ownership Rule
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Overturning a 32-year-old ban, the Federal Communications Commission will allow broadcasters in the nationâs 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper.
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U.S. communications regulators are  expected to approve on Tuesday a plan to loosen media ownership  restrictions, despite objections from consumer groups and a  threat by some U.S. senators to revoke the action.
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The Federal Communications  Commission has approved new rules giving broadcasters more  flexibility in making the switch to digital television from  traditional analog signals.
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The Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to loosen media ownership restrictions in the 20 biggest U.S. cities, despite objections from consumer groups and a threat by some senators to revoke the action.
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The Federal Communications Commission is pushing ahead to pass a rule today that would allow more consolidation of local media ownership in the nation's largest cities, despite the fresh threat of a legislative rebuke and continued protests from advocacy groups.
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Business & money: Media group told to avoid Murdoch newspaper war.
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Media & professional: Ofcom to amend TV and radio stations' licences to make them directly responsible for lapses.
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New U.S. media ownership rules would likely take up to seven years to establish, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said on Thursday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has approved a new law that lets the government control all radio and television programming, despite opposition and international groups' concerns that it could be a threat to press freedom.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp., the world&#39;s fifth-largest media company and owner of the Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel, adopted a plan to thwart any hostile takeover after John Malone&#39;s Liberty Media Corp.
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News Corp. shareholders approved Rupert Murdoch&#39;s plan to move his media company to the US from Australia, making it easier to raise money for expansion and allowing the stock to be
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. will strengthen corporate governance provisions to ease concern among investors who threatened to vote against the company&#39;s proposed move to the US if shareholder rights were diminished.
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Winning the rights to broadcast premiere  league football matches will help France Telecom  step  up its transformation into an integrated multi-media group,  analysts said on Thursday.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a plan that would wrap up by the end of the year the long-running debate over how many media properties a company should be allowed to own in a single market.
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The Federal Communications Commission set new parameters on Tuesday for the size and scope of the largest news and cable companies.
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By Alfonse D'Amato  The Fair Media Council posted a Media Bill of Rights on its blog recently, and it requires reprinting in good old-fashioned ink. In the interest of complete accuracy, it's really not about the media's rights, which are pretty much covered under the First Amendement.
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MADRID, Spain  -- In the most expensive television rights deal in club soccer, Real Madrid sold its TV broadcast rights to a production company for $1.41 billion over seven years.