[News] The FCC Repealed a TV Ownership Cap Congress Wrote Into Law. The Republican Who Negotiated It Says the Agency Had No Power To.
The FCC voted 2-1 to scrap the rule barring any one company from reaching more than 39 percent of US television households, and the legal fight turns on a second thing Congress did in 2004: it took the cap out of the review process that lets the agency change ownership rules on its own.
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