House Internet Caucus Co-Chmn. Boucher (D-Va.) predicted Thurs. t...
House Internet Caucus Co-Chmn. Boucher (D-Va.) predicted Thurs. that Congress would turn back the 45% media ownership cap adopted by the FCC for TV stations, but wouldn’t roll back the rest of the rules, including cross-ownership. He was addressing…
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members of the Computer & Communications Industry Assn. (CCIA). The increase in TV ownership to 45% from 35% is “the most controversial,” Boucher said. He echoed others in saying the House would “not take up” the resolution of disapproval the Senate passed against all the new rules, but said the Senate probably would keep the 45% rollback the House had approved in an appropriations bill. Thus, that would be rolled back but “cross-ownership will be allowed to go forward.” Former FCC Chmn. Powell Chief of Staff Marsha MacBride defended the new rules: “They were very modest changes. They were not the end of democracy.”