In a not at all shocking decision the FCC voted 3-2 today to ease rules on media ownership:
At one level, Monday’s vote represents a high-stakes power struggle at FCC headquarters between left-leaning groups—along with a few conservative allies like the National Rifle Association—and free-market groups and Republicans in Congress. The FCC’s tense internal deliberations also highlight an ideological conflict between two wildly different views of how to keep prices low and competition robust: Is it wiser to increase the number of federal regulations or to gradually rescind them?
Although we firmly believe in limited government and the free-market, the influence the big media conglomerates has over American media is staggering. The big companies are sure to grow bigger as a result of the new ruling. Let’s see how things change here in Texas. To that end, we have prepared a review of media ownership in D/FW as of today:
AOL/Time Warner
- AOL/Time Warner does not currently own any DFW media/communication providers.
Belo Corp
City of Dallas
- WRR 101.1 FM
Clear Channel
Criswell Communications
General Electric
Knight-Ridder
New Times
News Corp
Paxson Communications Corp.
- KPXD 68 TV
Public Broadcasting
Radio One
- KBFB 97.9 FM
Salem Communications
Susquehanna Media Co.
Tribune Co.
- KDAF 33 TV
Univision
Viacom
- KTVT CBS 11
- KTXA 21 TV
- KLUV-FM 98.7 FM
- KRBV 100.3 FM
- KVIL-FM 103.7 FM
- KLLI 105.3 FM
- KOAI 107.5 FM
- KRLD 1080 AM
Walt Disney
- KSCS 96.3 FM
- KMEO 96.7 FM
- KESN 103.3 FM
- KMKI 620 AM
- WBAP 820 AM
We plan to review in a year and see what has changed.
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