Abstract
This study of television ownership was undertaken against a background of industry turbulence and likely regulatory change to provide new data on TV station multiple ownership and local newspaper-TV cross-media ownership in 1995. It reveals that 75% of all TV stations in the top one hundred markets are licensed to multiple owners, with 22.5% affiliated with newspaper publishers. Local newspaper-TV cross-media ownerships have become rare, with only 19 of 734 stations in the top one hundred markets sharing ownership with a colocated newspaper. Of the 210 TV groups, about 10 are major entities, with perhaps 25 firms playing a significant role in the television industry at this time.
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