(DOWNLOAD) "Anniston Broadcasting Co. v. United States" by Fifth Circuit.*Fn* United States Court of Appeals " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Anniston Broadcasting Co. v. United States
- Author : Fifth Circuit.*Fn* United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 26, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Anniston Broadcasting Company and Owosso Broadcasting Company, Inc., petition this court for review1 of a Memorandum Opinion and Order of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission),2 denying their petitions for waiver of sections 73.35, 73.240, and 73.636 of the Commission's Rules, which require divestiture of newspaper-broadcast combinations which constitute effective monopolies over their communities' media. In a subsequent proceeding, the Commission stayed the January 1, 1980, divestiture deadline until June 1, 1980.3 Anniston Broadcasting Company owns the only daily newspaper, the Anniston Star, two radio stations, WHMA-AM and WHMA-FM, and the only local television station, WHMA, in Anniston, Alabama. Owosso Broadcasting Company, Inc., owns a majority interest in the only daily newspaper, The Argus-Press, and the only local AM, WOAP, and FM, WOAP-FM, radio stations in Owosso, Michigan. Owosso has no local television station.