Mass Media Notes

A court’s lifting a stay on cross-ownership rules means they'll take effect (CD March 24 p13) but that may not have much short-term impact, wrote a lawyer with broadcast clients. The current FCC has said it doesn’t approve of the 2008 order relaxing a ban on common ownership of a daily newspaper and radio or TV station in the same market, Dan Kirkpatrick wrote on the blog of Fletcher Heald at http://xrl.us/bg2o4z. “Until the 3rd Circuit [U.S. appeals court] issues its decision on the merits of the pending appeals, the longevity of those changes is still very much an open question."