The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 9-0 decision that the Federal Communications Commission acted within its rights when it voted in November 2018 to abolish the newspaper-broadcast and radio-TV cross-ownership rules, rework the radio AM-FM subcap regulations, and relax several television ownership restrictions, including allowing the same company to own two of the big network affiliates in a single market. The move is a blow to groups that challenged the FCC decision. The nine justices said that while the FCC did not have “perfect empirical or statistical data” it said “the Court cannot say that the agency’s decision to repeal or modify the ownership rules fell outside the zone of reasonableness.”
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