FCC to consider a termination of the merger ban in American broadcast networks – Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The American Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to Consider whether the long -term ban on a merger should be lifted Between each of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other rules for media property. The FCC said the public comments would consider before he decides whether the rule has to be reversed between the “Big Four” networks: NBC, owned by Comcast, Walt Disney Co’s ABC, Paramount Skydance’s CBS or Fox. The FCC also said that it was looking for public comments in the field of eliminating or revising a rule that limits a single entity to possess more than two of the four largest television stations on the same local market and a rule that can limit the total number of local radio stations that can be in an internal market.

Earlier, the FCC noted that since the 1940s there has been a version of the rule of double ownership of networks. An assessment of the media property of 2018 concluded that the bar should be maintained “because it promotes the core policy objectives of the agency of competition and localism.” We are planning to follow a new approach to the competition by investigating the wider MediaMarkt, instead of treating the radio and television broadcast as an isolated markets, “said FCC chairman Brendan Carr. Rules.”