Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

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前共和党大佬公开打脸：FCC没权动这规矩！当年亲手制定电视所有权上限的Tom DeLay站出来说，特朗普领导的FCC想废除39%的覆盖面限制？没门！这规矩是写进法律的，只有国会能改，FCC说了不算。这39%的电视家庭覆盖率上限，就是防止一家公司垄断太多电视台、控制太多舆论。现在FCC主席Carr愣是要在周四投票推翻，DeLay直接发文怒怼：你们这是越权！这事要是真成了，直接影响就是你家电视节目选择可能变少。大公司可以疯狂收购各地电视台，小电视台被吞并，本地新闻、地方节目恐怕都要被统一口径。到时候你看到的新闻，可能都是同一家公司想让你看到的。说白了，这是在动媒体多样性的根基。

Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule. Despite DeLay's warning, the Trump FCC appears ready to eliminate the rule at its meeting this week. DeLay wrote an op-ed describing how he helped write the law that prohibited any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. DeLay said that only Congress, not the Trump FCC, can change the cap because the 39 percent limit is specified in US law and wasn't chosen by the commission. DeLay gave his view in an op-ed for The Daily Wire yesterday, less than three weeks after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced a plan to eliminate the cap. The FCC is scheduled to vote on Carr's proposal on Thursday.Read full article Comments