The FCC denied Fox Corp.’s request for permanent waiver to allow it to own WWOR-TV and the New York Post, as the Supreme Court is set to review rules that restrict common ownership of a newspaper and TV station in the same market.Instead, Fox Corp.
was granted a temporary waiver, as it has been three other times.The high court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 19 in a case challenging the FCC’s effort to eliminate the newspaper/broadcast station cross-ownership rule in 2017.
The rule was reinstated following a 2-1 decision in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The FCC’s Media Bureau indicated that it decided to grant the temporary waiver rather than a permanent one until the status of the rule was resolved.“The action in this Order
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