The FCC held the sixth hearing in its media ownership review today, and consolidation, as well as localism, was the main target of panelists and participates. Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, both Democrats, said consolidation had "wreaked havoc" on localism and called on the agency to create a task force before voting on any revisions of the media ownership rules.
Copps also said that he thought the FCC's process had been "window dressing" up this point and remarked that, "consolidation continues to choke the lifeblood out of localism, with its outsourced news, homogenized playlists and distant ownership." He also proposed that the agency tighten the license renewal process and revise public interest rules.
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