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An ambitious Federal Communications Commission plan to kill a raft of limits on media companies’ reach is likely to wind up in court.

Nothing Donald Trump says to attack journalism is as dangerous as what Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, does to attack journalism.

FCC Chairman Pai told a House oversight committee hearing that he plans to bring to a vote at the Commission’s Nov. 16 meeting an order that would abolish the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. Also in the crosshairs is the radio-television cross-ownership rule.

In a ruling seen as a major win for the largest media conglomerates in the country, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Main Studio Rule, a 77-year-old regulation that required local television and radio broadcasters to maintain physical studios in the communities they serve.

The Federal Communications Commission is planning to vote in November on proposals to roll back ownership rules that were meant to support diverse voices in local media.

Free Press Action Fund is hosting an event at NJIT in Newark to discuss legislation that could better inform local communities.

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said he’ll move to weaken or kill local media ownership restrictions next month, potentially clearing the way for more consolidation among companies that own TV and radio stations.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai unveiled a series of proposals to relax media-ownership rules, including ending the ban on the ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market.

The FCC will be voting to roll back prohibitions against common ownership of a newspaper and broadcast station in the same area, the chairman said Wednesday.

The Federal Communications Commission 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.