There’s “enormous precedential value” to how the FCC decides on...

There’s “enormous precedential value” to how the FCC decides on Tribune’s request to transfer to a new owner waivers of rules limiting common ownership of daily newspapers and radio or TV stations in the same market (CD Sept 9 p4), opponents to the company’s pending application said. The agency’s “central policy favoring the gradual breakup of newspaper-broadcast cross-ownerships” hasn’t changed under new waiver rules, representatives of opponents said in a filing posted Monday in docket 10-104. “Comity with Tribune’s bankruptcy proceedings does not require the sale of Tribune’s media properties in their current cross-owned state.” Representatives of the Communications Workers of America, Media Alliance and others met with Chief Bill Lake and other Media Bureau front office officials to make their point.