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The FCC voted along party lines Thursday to permit broadcasters to own multiple TV stations in every market, regardless of size, by eliminating the so-called eight-voice test.

The Lifeline service, which aims to give broadband to low-income people, has been derided by conservatives.

The FCC wants to roll back landmark media-ownership regulations that prohibit owning a television station and newspaper in the same market and making it easier to acquire additional TV or radio stations, Chairman Ajit Pai said on Wednesday.

Injecting President Donald Trump’s business-friendly, anti-regulation urges into the media business, the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission approved sweeping rollbacks of rules designed to limit monopoly control of local broadcast properties.

In an age of massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil plans next week for a final vote to reverse a landmark 2015 Net Neutrality order barring the blocking or slowing of web content, two people briefed on the plans said.

Congressional Democrats are requesting an internal investigation at the Federal Communications Commission into whether Ajit Pai, the FCC's Republican chairman, has been improperly rolling back regulations to help the Sinclair Broadcasting Group secure a controversial merger that would allow the right-leaning company to reach 72 percent of the nation's television viewers.

Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly urged a top executive at CNN's parent company to fire a fifth of its staff over its coverage of the presidential election.

The merger between AT&T and Time Warner is a problem, with or without CNN.

AT&T’s proposed $85-billion purchase of Time Warner is encountering stiff resistance from the Department of Justice, which is pressuring the companies to sell Time Warner’s news channel, CNN, to win approval of the deal. The opposition — which some analysts called “unprecedented” — threatens to scuttle a massive media deal.