Local Media Ownership and Media Quality
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Local Media Ownership and Media Quality
Local Media Ownership and Media Quality
Date Written: August 26, 2011
Abstract
The United States Federal Communications Commission regulates local media ownership to promote competition, diversity and the provision of local programming. This study investigates how local media cross-ownership, co-ownership and ownership diversity are associated with media market outcomes. It does so by regressing local-market media quality variables on local-market media ownership variables, controlling for unobserved market characteristics. Scant evidence is found to indicate that local media ownership affects local media usage or programming.
Keywords: Law, Media, News, Regulation, Television
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