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• Teamsters Question FCC Requirements for Owner Control in Tribune Deal

  - 2007-12-12

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Galen Munroe of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6904 Teamsters FileRequest for ReconsiderationWASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the International Brotherhood of Teamsters sought reconsideration of the Federal Communications Commissions FCC decision granting the Tribune Companys (NYSE: TRB)transfer of ownership request and its associated requests for waiver...

  Tags: Benefits, commission, ESOP, FCC, Government, Regulations, SALES, Tribune Co.

• FCC decision clears Tribune Co. sale to real estate billionaire Sam

  - 2007-12-03

  WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission approved the $8.2 billion buyout of the Tribune Co. by a 3-2 vote Friday, a move that will allow the deal to close by the end of the year. In approving the deal, the agency granted Tribune Co. a temporary waiver on...

  Tags: Chicago, FCC, Government, Tribune Co., waiver

• FCC OKs Cable Cap Limit, Tribune Deal (Broadcasting and Cable)

  - 2007-12-03

  A majority of the FCC's commissioners have voted to impose a 30% cap on the number of multichannel video subscribers any cable company could own, FCC sources confirmed at presstime. A majority of the FCC's commissioners have voted to impose a 30% cap on...

  Tags: broadcasting, cable, FCC, Tribune Co.

• FCC chief favors waivers for Tribune

  - 2007-11-29

  The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday said he has proposed that the agency clear the $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co. this week with temporary waivers of media cross-ownership rules. Chicago investor Sam Zell plans to buy the company by year's end, taking...

  Tags: Chicago, FCC, Government, Tribune Co., waiver

• Changes for the Media Market: Will Deregulation Lead to M&A?

  - 2007-11-19

  Kevin J. Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has announced a plan that would relax regulations that prevent companies from owning multiple media outlets in a single city. The restrictions, intended to preserve a diversity of news reporting, prevent a single company from owning both a newspaper and...

  Tags: deregulation, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, M&A, MARKETING, media, Regulations, Tribune Co., TVs

• Teamsters Warn Tribune Waivers Could Violate FCC Rules and Policies

  - 2007-10-31

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Galen Munroe of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6904, gmunroe@teamster.org Union Urges Protection of Public Interest in Tribune DealWASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters testified at todays Federal Communications Commission FCC hearing regarding diversity and localism in media ownership, raising concerns about the...

  Tags: FCC, Government, Teamsters, Tribune Co.

• Teamsters Urge FCC to Protect Diversity in Media Ownership Rules

  - 2007-09-20

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Galen Munroe of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, +1-202-624-6904, gmunroe@teamster.org CHICAGO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters today testified at the Federal Communications Commission's hearing on media ownership and urged the Commission to protect diversity and other issues of public interest in considering change...

  Tags: Benefits, FCC, Government, Teamsters, Tribune Co.

• Teamsters Call on FCC to Protect Diverse and Local Viewpoints at Tribune

  - 2007-06-12

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  Tags: FCC, Labor, Tribune Co.

• Ill. Lawmakers Seek Quick Tribune Action.

  - 2007-05-28

  By Ted Hearn Washington- A majority of the Illinois congressional delegation - but not the state's junior senator, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama - signed a letter urging swift action by the Federal Communications Commission on By...

  Tags: FCC, Tribune Co., waiver

• Breaking the news: it's not the Internet that's killing newspapers. It's the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press

  - 2007-03-01

  Senate reconfirmation hearings tend to be predictable affairs, marked by polite give-and-take and senatorial grandstanding, but generally free of surprise plot twists. And so it was supposed to go last September 12, when Federal Communications Commission FCC chairman Kevin Martin appeared before the Commerce Committee. In March 2005, following the...

  Tags: blog, Chicago, equity, FCC, Government, Internet, investor, Los Angeles Times, MSM, Tribune Co., TVs