Tauzin urges completion of media rules
By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/28/2002 4:45:00 AM
House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) sought assurances Thursday from Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell that the commission will complete its review and rewrite of media-ownership rules "no later than spring of 2003."
Ken Ferree, chief of the FCC's Media Bureau, told reporters two weeks ago that the FCC was rolling consideration of several media regulations into one proceeding that it plans to have completed by next year.
Tauzin said he is "disappointed with the commission's decision to defer what should be an immediate repeal" of the ban on owning both newspapers and broadcast outlets.
"However, I am heartened that final resolution of all of the outstanding broadcast-ownership issues -- in the form of an 'omnibus' proceeding -- is on the horizon," he added.
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