Cross-Ownership Restriction Is Part of House Funding Bill

07.03.2008

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The House Appropriations Committee last week passed a funding bill that would ban the FCC from implementing its newspaper cross-ownership rule ordered in December.

The bill includes $338.8 million for the FCC for fiscal 2009, which begins Oct . 1.

NAB opposed the measure, included in the bill, that would prohibit the commission from using the funds to implement the new rule.

The bill also includes $20 million for DTV education.

The legislation still needs Senate passage, and many appropriations bills pass through joint House-Senate conference committees to hammer out the differences in the two chambers’ bills.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., has introduced a House version of the Senate resolution of disapproval on the ownership rules. The Senate version passed in May.

— TV Technology