By AMY SCHATZ, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—Federal regulators may face more pressure to overhaul laws governing media ownership in the U.S. after a federal appeals court Thursday threw out a 2008 government decision to relax restrictions on companies seeking to control both newspapers and television stations.
A panel of the U.S. [...]

By Timothy Karr, HuffPost Media
It’s not every day that you can celebrate a win for the public over big media. But on Thursday a federal appeals court threw out an attempt by the FCC and industry titans to gut media ownership limits.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [...]

By Gautham Nagesh, Hillicon Valley
A federal court rejected a rule change from the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday that would have made it easier for a single company to own both a newspaper and broadcast TV station in the same local market on technical grounds.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]

By Ted Johnson, Variety
A federal appellate court turned back the FCC’s effort to relax its limits on ownership of newspapers and TV stations in the same market, ruling that the agency failed to give adequate notice when they made the change in 2007.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals means that the [...]

By JOELLE TESSLER, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has restored a longstanding ban that prevents media companies from owning both a newspaper and a television station in the same market.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t give [...]

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the FCC’s 2008 decision not to loosen the TV duopoly, radio ownership or TV-radio crossownership rules, but has remanded its loosening of the broadcast/newspaper crossownership rule back to the FCC for failure to meet notice and comment requirements.
It [...]

By Katy Bachman, Adweek
Opponents of media consolidation won a big victory Thursday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tossed the Federal Communications Commission’s rule that loosened the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership. It also ruled to keep the limits on the number of TV and radio stations a single [...]

By Sophia Pearson and Todd Shields , Bloomberg

A U.S. appeals court vacated Federal Communications Commission rules relaxing limits on cross- ownership of newspapers and broadcast outlets, saying the agency failed to provide adequate notice.
The [...]

The following  decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit was released today

July 7, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
andys@mediaaccess.org
202-454-5681
WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today ruled in favor of public interest groups in deciding that the FCC acted improperly in attempting to liberalize its rules prohibiting ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations in the same market.  In [...]