Download or read book Regulation of Media Ownership by the Federal Communications Commission written by Stanley M. Besen and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses the state of current knowledge about the likely effects of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) restrictions on the ownership of broadcasting stations and cable TV systems, to reach judgments about the desirability of modifying or eliminating existing FCC ownership regulations. It examines the evidence on the effects of group ownership of broadcast stations, concentrated regional ownership, common ownership of broadcast stations within a local market, television station-cable system cross-ownership, and telephone-cable cross-ownership. The report reaches four broad conclusions: (1) Concentrated broadcast station ownership leads neither to large operating efficiencies nor to anticompetitive behavior; (2) there is little or no basis for the FCC's group ownership rules, some support exists for rules limiting regional concentration, and stronger support exists for rules that limit cross-ownership within narrow geographic areas; (3) there is no compelling basis for lifting the telephone-cable system cross-ownership ban; and (4) present FCC rules, and many of the proposals for their repeal or modification, are often deficient because they fail to take into account actual competitive conditions.
Download or read book Commission s Mass Media Ownership Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media Ownership written by Ronald E. Rice and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends and developments in social values, political ideologies, media policies, economic conditions, globalization, media technologies, and telecommunications networks have all interacted to generate significant changes in the nature of media industries, production, content, distribution, exhibition, and use. This book considers a wide variety of interdisciplinary discussion and analysis of historical, legal, cultural, policy, research, professional, oppositional and ethical perspectives on the media ownership question.
Download or read book The Use of Social Science Evidence by the Federal Communications Commission in the Construction and Enforcement of Media Ownership Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Communications Commission's rules governing media ownership, traditionally implemented under a trustee model, have changed radically as the result of deregulatory moves in the 1980's and a change to a regulatory implementation based on economic competition in the mid 1990's. Under the statutory obligation of Statute 202 to review ownership rules, the FCC has acted outside of the guidelines of the rulemaking procedures of the Administrative Procedure Act, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a pair of FCC decisions to the agency for lack of supporting evidence. A significant part of the evidence issue lies in the reality that at the heart of the regulation of media ownership is an empirically unexplored relationship between the diversity of content and ownership. The belief that each owner represents one viewpoint has been used by the FCC as a proxy measurement when assessing the changes on the quantity and quality of the informational content being provided to local audiences by broadcasters. This dissertation explores the history of the ownership-diversity relationship, beginning with the FCC's 1975 ban on Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership, and tracks the development of media ownership policy through the changes to the broadcast industry which began after the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. 1039 individual decisions on media ownership were analyzed for evidence that the agency had assessed the effects of ownership on viewpoint diversity. This analysis demonstrates that there is a minimal amount evidence of which exists to support the central theory at the heart of the FCC's media ownership policy. After discussing the evidence the FCC continues to collect as part of the ongoing 2010 Quadraennial review, the author concludes that the lack of supporting evidence is not a new problem, nor has the agency taken the necessary steps to evaluate the effects of policy implementation.
Download or read book Concentration of Mass Media Ownership written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The FCC s Broadcast Media Ownership Rules written by Charles B. Goldfarb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media Freedom and Pluralism written by Beata Klimkiewicz and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses a critical analysis of major media policies in the European Union and Council of Europe at the period of profound changes affecting both media environments and use, as well as the logic of media policy-making and reconfiguration of traditional regulatory models. The analytical problem-related approach seems to better reflect a media policy process as an interrelated part of European integration, formation of European citizenship, and exercise of communication rights within the European communicative space. The question of normative expectations is to be compared in this case with media policy rationales, mechanisms of implementation (transposing rules from EU to national levels), and outcomes.
Download or read book Media Ownership written by Tom Robinson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the debate over media ownership, includes the legislation that has shaped the issue as well as the numerous sides of each argument.
Download or read book Electronic Media and Government written by F. Leslie Smith and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic Media and Government is a richly detailed assessment of the complex laws and regulations governing electronic media.
Download or read book Legal Restrictions on Ownership of the Mass Media written by Michael Botein and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FCC Media Ownership Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 2, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission modified five of its media ownership rules, easing restrictions on the ownership of multiple television stations (nationally and in local markets) and on local media cross-ownership, and tightening restrictions on the ownership of multiple radio stations in local markets. The new rules have never gone into effect. Sec. 629 of the FY2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 108-199) instructs the FCC to modify its new National Television Ownership rule to allow a broadcast network to own and operate local broadcast stations that reach, in total, at most 39% of U.S. television households. On June 24, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ("Third Circuit"), in Prometheus Radio Project vs. Federal Communications Commission, found the FCC did not provide reasoned analysis to support its specific local ownership limits and therefore remanded portions of the new local ownership rules back to the FCC and extended its stay of those rules. Several media companies and media associations sought appeals at the Supreme Court, based in part on challenging the continued viability of the spectrum scarcity rationale for broadcast regulation, but on June 13, 2005 the Court declined to consider the appeals. In June 2006, the FCC adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on how to address the issues raised by the Third Circuit and initiating a statutorily-required quadrennial review of all of its media ownership rules, but did not propose specific rule changes. In November 2006, the FCC announced that it had commissioned 10 economic studies of media ownership, which are expected to be completed and made available for public comment during 2007.
Download or read book Media Concentration and Democracy written by C. Edwin Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the 'bottom line'. The middle chapters answer those agents, including the Federal Communication Commission, who favor 'deregulation' and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers.
Download or read book Information Needs of Communities written by Steven Waldman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, a bipartisan Knight Commission found that while the broadband age is enabling an info. and commun. renaissance, local communities in particular are being unevenly served with critical info. about local issues. Soon after the Knight Commission delivered its findings, the FCC initiated a working group to identify crosscurrent and trend, and make recommendations on how the info. needs of communities can be met in a broadband world. This report by the FCC Working Group on the Info. Needs of Communities addresses the rapidly changing media landscape in a broadband age. Contents: Media Landscape; The Policy and Regulatory Landscape; Recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Who Owns the Media written by Benjamin M. Compaine and published by White Plains, NY : Knowledge Industry Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media Ownership and Control in the Age of Convergence written by International Institute of Communications and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telecommunications, broadcasting and the print media continue to merge, in technical, functional and organisational terms. This book examines media ownership policy and regulation to explore how the global media will be controlled, and by whom.
Download or read book The FCC s Broadcast Media Ownership Rules written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We thus remand for the Commission to justify or modify its approach to setting numerical limits.4 As a result of the Third Circuit's stay and remand of the broadcast local ownership rules that the FCC had adopted in 2003,5 the broadcast media ownership rules that had been in place prior to the FCC's adoption of its Order on June 2, 2003 were reinstated-except that in the interim 1 For a detailed d [...] Every proposed newspaper- broadcast combination in which the signal of the broadcast station encompasses the entire community in which the newspaper is published is subject to a public interest determination with three distinct steps.11 6 In the Matter of 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review-Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the T [...] Since the Third Circuit found that the FCC had failed to justify the numerical limits in the rules it had adopted in 2003, and the new FCC rule incorporates a number of numerical limits in both its positive and negative public interest presumptions, the 2007 Order discussed the record evidence underlying each of the numerical elements in its new newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. [...] Under the standard for "failing" stations, a waiver is presumed to be in the public interest if the applicant satisfies each of the following criteria: (1) one of the merging stations has had all- day audience share of 4% or lower; (2) the financial condition of one of the merging stations is poor; (3) and the merger will produce public interest benefits. [...] The ownership limits currently in place are those that the FCC adopted in 1996 to codify the language in Section 202(b)(1) of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, but, as a result of the Third Circuit agreeing in rehearing to lift the portion of its stay relating to the FCC's new methodology for defining local radio markets, those markets are defined using that new methodology.
