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Dec 13 2007 12:00am EDT

FCC's Martin Won't Back Down

Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is going ahead with his plan to hold a vote on relaxing media ownership limits next week -- and Harry Potter be damned.

Martin appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee today, where Senators John Kerry, Trent Lott, Ted Stevens and others urged him to delay the vote, currently scheduled for Dec. 18.

His response, basically, was: Look, it's not getting any less controversial. "I am not convinced that we would ever reach a consensus on media ownership, I think it is just too politically divisive," he said.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Martin can probably count on the support of his two fellow Republicans on the commission to provide a 3-to-2 majority in favor of his proposal to lift the ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and a TV or radio station in the country's largest media markets ...

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