Sources: Pai Teeing Up Media Ownership Order - TvTechnology

Sources: Pai Teeing Up Media Ownership Order

Said to allow crossownership, could tweak duopoly test

Author:: TV Technology Staff
Publish date:: Aug 11, 2017

WASHINGTON—Multiple sources are reporting that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is working on a media ownership order that, according to one industry source, would allow newspaper-broadcast and radio-TV crossownership. Additional parts of the order could remove the prohibition on owning two of the top four-rated stations in a market and “tweak” the eight-voices test for allowing duopolies.

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