Sentence examples for station ownership from inspiring English sources

Few regulatory experts expect the station ownership rule to survive in its current form.

When the agency eased its rules on radio station ownership in 1996, it resulted in a wave of deals.

The Bush administration has threatened to veto any bill that overturns the expansion on TV station ownership.

After the Telecommunications Act of 1996 relaxed constraints on radio station ownership, Clear Channel gobbled up nearly 1,200 stations.

At the time, radio playlists were becoming more constricted, thanks to the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which deregulated station ownership.

The F.C.C. proposed to leave most of the other rules about TV and radio station ownership in place with minor modifications.

In practice that has limited two-station ownership to a few dozen of the largest metropolitan areas.

The complaints, entwined with growing concerns over concentration of radio-station ownership by a few media giants, are drawing the scrutiny of regulators and Congress.

The Federal Communications Commission last June narrowly endorsed a number of media ownership rules, including one Viacom particularly wanted: the deregulation of television-station ownership, which would allow a single network to control stations reaching 45percentt of United States homes.

Meanwhile, another House bill introduced by New York Democrat Maurice Hinchey Maurice Hinchey that would have overturned the FCC action more directly, including aspects other than the local-station ownership cap, was defeated on a separate 254-to-174 vote.

CBS also would run into problems with the Federal Communications Commmission's TV-station ownership rules.