To eliminate the daily newspaper cross-ownership rule of the Federal Communications Commission.

Bill: 114-hr-6474
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2016-12-07
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action: action_date: 2016-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-12-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill eliminates the Federal Communications Commission's broadcast/newspaper cross-ownership ban, which prohibits a single entity, or parties under common control, from owning a daily newspaper and a full-power commercial broadcast station (AM, FM, or television) in the same market.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6474 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 7, 2016 Mr. Walden (for himself, Mr. Yarmuth , Mr. Gene Green of Texas , Mr. Rush , Mr. Bilirakis , Mr. Olson , and Mr. Guthrie ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To eliminate the daily newspaper cross-ownership rule of the Federal Communications Commission.

1. Elimination of daily newspaper cross-ownership rule (a) No force or effect Paragraph (d) of section 73.3555 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, shall have no force or effect after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Removal from rules Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall complete all actions necessary to remove such paragraph from its rules.