FCC Deregulation
The Federal Communications Commission has lifted the cap on the number of radio and TV stations that can be owned in a single market. A Senate committee has overturned part of that ruling. Will there be a fight? Will Lewis speaks with a former chairman of the FCC, the executive director of a non-profit telecommunications law firm and the director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television about the FCC deregulation issue.
By Sarah Spitz • • 1 min readRobert Thompson is director of the
Center for Study of Popular Television and a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University, New York.
Andrew Schwartzman is executive director of the Media Access Project, a nonprofit public-interest telecommunications law firm in Washington, DC.
Richard Wiley is a partner in the law firm of Wiley, Rein and Fielding, specialists in Telecommunications issues, and a former chairman, commissioner and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission. (http://www.fcc.gov/ownership)