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Appeals Court Rejects FCC Attempt To Scrap Media Ownership Limits

By Free Press

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday delivered a forceful rebuke of the Federal Communications Commission and overturned the agency’s latest attempts to eliminate long-standing limits on local media ownership.
An alliance of public-interest groups – Common Cause, the Communications Workers of America, Free Press, the Media Mobilizing Project, the Prometheus Radio Project and the United Church of Christ Office of Communication, Inc., as well as attorneys from the Georgetown Law Institute of Public Representation – challenged the Trump FCC’s ruling for its failure to address the impact of this radical deregulation on race and gender diversity in broadcasting.
The court agreed in full with the public-interest groups’ argument that the Commission “did not adequately consider the effect its sweeping rule changes will have on ownership of broadcast media by women and racial minorities.”

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Posted on September 24, 2019

It Says Here

By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!

“Next, a look at today’s papers. Why fucking bother?”

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Posted on September 23, 2019

Failed Mayor Rahm Emanuel Yuks It Up With Failed Governor Chris Christie On ABC’s Expert Panel

By Eoin Higgins/Common Dreams

The ABC political show This Week on Sunday devoted a chunk of time to attacking Medicare for All, drawing fire for the segment’s panel makeup and language.
Of particular gall was the fact that the panel’s nominal liberal was former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a fiercely right-wing Democrat whose decades-long career in Washington, as Intercept editor Ryan Grim recently detailed in his book “We’ve Got People,” has been devoted to stifling the party’s progressive wing.
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Posted on September 10, 2019

Sinclair Rampage Continues: Acquires 20% Interest In YES Network

By Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

As part of a consortium led by Yankee Global Enterprises, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (“Sinclair”) (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced that an indirect subsidiary of Diamond Sports Group has acquired a 20% equity interest in the Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (“YES Network”), valued at approximately $346 million on a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion. In addition, under the YES Network management team, Sinclair will direct the YES Network’s traditional and virtual distribution relationships.
The YES Network is the country’s most-watched regional sports network (RSN), broadcasting games, programs and specialty content for the New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, Major League Soccer’s New York City FC, and the WNBA’s New York Liberty.

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Posted on September 3, 2019