Media general faces TV/paper fight.(Washington Watch)(media activists filed petition against Media General Inc.'s crossownership)(television)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2005

Media activists are gearing up to fight Media General's request for an FCC waiver that will let it keep both WMBB-TV and the Jackson County Floridian in Panama City, Fla. Without a waiver to the FCC's ban on local TV/newspaper crossownership, Richmond, Va.-based Media General will have to divest itself of one of the properties if it wants to renew WMBB's license.

The station's current permit expires Feb. 1 and Media Access Project (MAP) President Andrew Schwartzman says his group filed a petition to deny the waiver. And that isn't all. MAP has already asked the FCC to nix the company's combo in Myrtle Beach, Fla., where it owns WBTW(TV) and the Florence, S.C., Morning News. A loophole in FCC rules has allowed Media General to operate the...

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