111. Industry deregulation has led to large companies owning many stations. 112. Investigators were trying to determine who owns the stations -- Murdoch, a naturalized U.S. citizen, or the Australian media and entertainment company he controls. 113. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., which supports legislation allowing television networks to own more stations. 114. Richards and Erickson, whose station is also owned by Clear Channel, denied that certain songs were banned. 115. Since Paxson owns a large number of stations around the country, it became a logical partner for larger companies seeking to own two stations in the same city. 116. Since companies now are allowed to own multiple stations in a market, some are buying competitors and changing the format of those stations to eliminate competition. 117. The Australian reported much of that backing would come from multimillionaire Packer, who owns television stations in Australia. 118. The key question facing the FCC is who owns the stations -- Murdoch or News Corp. 119. The move was interpreted by analysts as either a Kremlin crackdown on media freedom or a Kremlin vendetta against the wealthy oligarch and government critic who owned the station. 120. The station is owned by a Banja Luka member of the ruling Bosnian Serb party founded by wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, whom Plavsic now opposes. |