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...stake in 72 stations and 51 affiliates that carry its family-oriented programming. Pittsburgh is the one major metropolitan area where it had no broadcast presence. The license it sought was owned by a public-television station, WQED. Approval of the transfer was under consideration at the FCC for four years. Late last year Paxson executives gave and helped raise $20,000 for the McCain campaign. Soon after, McCain asked the FCC to vote quickly on whether to allow the company to acquire the license. FCC chairman William Kennard, a Democrat, wrote back a sharply worded rebuke to the Senator...
...request for specific action, though defenders say the Senator was acting in accordance with his long-standing belief that federal agencies should not interfere in the free market. "What's wrong is when someone does something he doesn't believe in because of a donation," says Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman. "That is not John McCain...
...other broadcasters. In a little-noticed move last June, McCain tried to attach to a telecommunications bill a provision that would have made it easier for broadcast groups to own more than one TV station in a market. McCain's measure was dropped when Democrats objected. In August the FCC moved to allow many of the changes McCain wanted. One result: Paxson's stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that his job as Commerce Committee chairman "is to make the bureaucrats work for the people." But when...
...Cokie Roberts claiming she was reporting from Capitol Hill when she was standing in front of a picture of the Capitol Building to the criticism TIME took for darkening O.J. Simpson's skin on its cover. But will there be pressure for reform, and if so, from where? The FCC traditionally shies away from policing news content. So until the corporate powers dominating the news industry come up with some sort of code of ethics, don't believe everything you see and hear...
...McCain," add Carney, "it plays into his whole thing of billing himself as a fresh alternative." Perhaps more important for McCain, it may help insulate him from his recent FCC mini-scandal. The Arizona senator, who has staked his campaign on campaign finance reform, has been red in the face since allegations surfaced that he'd tried to sway federal regulators in favor of a cable company that contributed to his campaign. The irony in all this is that the Democratic race - which had been billed as a party-defining ideological war - has been bereft of much drama. While Keyes...