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 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.
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.
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 Justice Department is requesting that AT&T-Time Warner sell off Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting, which includes CNN, before it would clear the merger.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected president, this week’s news that the Department of Justice was seeking tough remedies from AT&T before allowing it to take over Time Warner would have been lauded by consumer campaigners and condemned by pro-business Republicans.
President Trump, who has repeatedly derided CNN's coverage of his administration as "fake news," has loomed over the deal since the companies announced it.