Re: New FCC ownership rules

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Cc: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: New FCC ownership rules

> I don't think it was ever one the cards that the newspaper
> cross-ownership rule could stand.  After the gambling advertising rule
> was struck down a few years ago, it became very clear to anyone who
> read the opinion that the newspaper cross-ownership rule would receive
> the same treatment if anyone ever tried to litigate it.

I think you are correct, but there are still people fighting to preserve
t  -- including the current owners of the Portland Press Herald.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine