FCC to Hold Media Ownership Workshop in Tampa

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The FCC's Media Bureau will hold its next media ownership workshop on April 20 at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Scheduled from 3-7:30pm, the workshop will explore any benefits and harms of newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership and the impact they have on competition and diversity in the media marketplace.

The one-panel forum will discuss, among other issues:

• How newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership affects competition. in the local media marketplace
• To what extent, if any, cross-ownership affects the production of news and public affairs content.
• Whether cross-owned combinations impact the quantity, quality, diversity, and responsiveness of local news and public affairs programming and if so, how.

Panelists will include representatives from organizations with newspaper-television and newspaper-radio combinations, and media advocacy groups. Public participation is encouraged.

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