Cox Enterprises wants the FCC to fully repeal the newspaper/broadcast...

Cox Enterprises wants the FCC to fully repeal the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule, as the NBCO rule is “more than 37 years old” and “the modern media market has fundamentally changed,” an executive of the owner of daily newspapers and radio and TV stations told Chief Bill Lake and others in the Media Bureau. “The unprecedented economic challenges facing newspapers and broadcast stations present a solid justification for the Commission to provide local media properties with the flexibility to compete with new competition from multichannel entertainment providers and the Internet,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 09-182 (http://xrl.us/bnc3sx). “Even if the Commission is not prepared to repeal the NBCO Rule, changed circumstances justify liberalizing the rule to reflect local media market conditions that exist today. ... Permitting radio/newspaper combinations could lead to improved local news."