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.
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.
Regulators eliminated a nearly 80-year-old requirement for TV and radio stations to maintain a main studio in or near the communities they serve, a step that critics called a step toward homogenized programming.
Federal regulators have voted to eliminate a longstanding rule covering radio and television stations in a move that could reshape America's media landscape.
After a campaign season spent boosting Trump, Sinclair looks set to grow even bigger thanks to the president’s appointees at the Federal Communications Commission.
Days after President Trump suggested that network outlets’ broadcast licenses should be revoked because of “partisan, distorted and fake” news coverage, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is being pressed to speak out on what some journalism groups see as an attack on First Amendment values.
President Trump continued his assault on NBC News Friday, retweeting former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's assertion that "the president will not be able to impact licenses, but he is doing major damage to the NBC brand."
A group of 21 free-speech activists, including three former FCC commissioners, called on the FCC chairman to publicly repudiate President's Trump tweeted suggestion that the FCC revoke broadcast licenses for airing "fake news" about him.
Tom Wheeler, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, implored his successor, Ajit Pai, to say something publicly about President Trump's threats to take NBC and other networks off the air because of their news coverage of the chief executive.
