[Rumori] The FCC ruling has happened

[James Allenspach]

And the outcome's not too surprising.

> FCC Votes to Ease Media Ownership Rules
> 
> WASHINGTON -  Federal regulators relaxed decades-old rules restricting
> media ownership Monday, permitting companies to buy more television
> stations and own a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in the same city.
> 
> The Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2
> — along party lines — to adopt a series of changes favored by media
> companies.
> 
> These companies argued that existing ownership rules were outmoded on a
> media landscape that has been substantially altered by cable TV,
> satellite broadcasts and the Internet.

More information is probably available at your favorite news site, if 
you can stomach it.

jma