Companies that own newspapers and broadcast stations in the same...

Companies that own newspapers and broadcast stations in the same market got extra time from the FCC Media Bureau to update their requests for waivers from the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross ownership rules, said an order released Monday (http://xrl.us/bnp6q2). The deadline to file such updates had been Sept. 27. But a group of media companies asked the bureau to delay the deadline until after the FCC publishes its latest quadrennial review of its media ownership rules. “Granting this extension of time will ensure that Media Parties’ supplemental filings can address the issues relevant to the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule that is adopted in that pending proceeding,” the order said. “We note that the Media Parties have represented that they will make the supplemental filings ... ‘notwithstanding the pendency of any administrative or judicial challenges'” to the media ownership rules, the order said. The parties will have until 60 days after the FCC releases its quadrennial review of its media ownership rules to file supplemental waiver material.