--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - April 04, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said the agency would consider revising the current newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership ban, a rule prohibiting a newspaper from owning a broadcast property in the same market. "After more then a decade of promises to revise the rule and significant changes in the marketplace, nothing has changed. The commission needs once again to try to update our rules to account for the dramatically changed media landscape," Martin said.
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