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Fox TV Says NAACP Charges of Foreign Ownership Are Recycled CBS Charges. (Originated from New York Daily News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1994 by Lyons, James

Jun. 9--First, it was professional football. Now it's CBS and Fox Broadcasting trading charges about the FCC's ongoing probe into the foreign ownership of Rupert Murdoch's television network.

Daily Variety reported yesterday that a Fox executive said the moving force behind the FCC's inquiry into Fox's ownership - the Metropolitan (N.Y.) Council of NAACP Branches - is merely recycling charges first made by CBS four years ago.

"Fox officials believe that the foreign ownership issue raised by the NAACP was given to them by CBS," a Fox spokeswoman told the Daily News yesterday.

The NAACP and CBS strongly deny the charge. Laura Blackburne, New York City counsel for the NAACP, called the Fox allegation "hogwash.... Suffice it to say that when people are...

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