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WASHINGTON — More than 250 people packed the hearing room at Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to voice their opposition to media consolidation. Testimony from members of the StopBigMedia.com Coalition challenged the FCC’s rush toward relaxing media ownership rules.

WASHINGTON — Citizens concerned about media consolidation will rally outside of Federal Communications Commission headquarters before the agency’s hearing on localism on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

The rally will take place:

Wednesday, Oct. 31
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Federal Communications Commission Headquarters
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON — A key House Subcommittee will look into the devastating impact of new postal rate hikes on independent publications, including some of the country’s most important political journals.

WASHINGTON — Free Press praised the Senate Commerce Committee today for advancing the bipartisan Local Community Radio Act (S.1675). Co-sponsored by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), this critical legislation could help bring hundreds of local, Low Power FM (LPFM) radio stations to cities and suburbs across the country.

WASHINGTON — Free Press commended the Senate Commerce Committee today for passing the bipartisan Community Broadband Act (S.1853).

WASHINGTON — Free Press applauded the House Energy and Commerce Committee today for approving the “Broadband Census of America Act” (HR 3919), legislation that will improve the measurement of the availability, speed and value of U.S. broadband.

Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, issued the following statement:

More than 150 citizens crowded the sidewalks outside Federal Communications Commission headquarters in a Halloween-morning rally against media consolidation.

WASHINGTON — Local citizens concerned about media consolidation will rally outside of Federal Communications Commission headquarters during the agency’s hearing on localism on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

WASHINGTON — Late Wednesday night, the Federal Communications Commission announced that its next hearing on localism will be on Oct. 31 at FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C. The hearing’s belated announcement — just five business days before the event — follows reports that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is rushing to eliminate longstanding media ownership limits before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON — In testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner will call on lawmakers to address media consolidation’s devastating impact on diverse and local radio ownership.