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Capitalist Media Monopoly? Think Again, Double the dumb, How the News Media Covered a Media Merger, Info-Bandits, Internet Part Of The Media Continuum, Issue - Corporate Ownership, Media Mergers -- Atlantic Monthly Flashback, Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian, Nicholas Johnson on Media Monopoly, The Threat to the Net, By Pat Aufderheide

A New FCC for the 21st Century

http://www.fcc.gov/21st_century/

Section of official Federal Communications website outlining FCC's changing role and reduced regulation because of a belief that there will be more competition in communications media.

Broadcasting & Cable Online / Station Sales

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/station/index.asp

Pending sales of television stations from industry publication.

CJR - The Real Dangers of Conglomerate Control

http://www.cjr.org/year/97/2/danger.asp

Excerpts from a 1996 forum hosted by Columbia Journalism Review, with panelists exprssing differing views on implications of media concentration of ownership.

Corporate Media Portal

http://www.partytown.com/cmp/

Information on corporate media, from a critical perspective. Articles and links about LPFM radio service, anti-corporate sites and links to free radio resources.

Federal Communications Commission

http://www.fcc.gov/

The FCC official homepage, with news background and other information about regulatory agency's activities and positions.

Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart

http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/

News and data on media ownership, plus related articles about media monopolies and concentration of power.

New Democracy Forum -- The Future of Media?

http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html#Media

Online debate about effects on democracy of corporate dominance and concentration of media ownership. Includes opinions from differing perspetives from Robert McChesney, Lawrence Grossman, Ralph Nader and other contributors. From Boston Review.

The Center for Public Integrity - Media Tracker

http://www.public-i.org/telecom/analysis/

Offers a database to displays who controls the media in any area of the United States. Searchable by zip code, city, company, radio or TV station.

The Progress & Freedom Foundation

http://www.pff.org/

A think tank devoted to the study of the digital revolution. Generally supports deregulation and free market in telecommunications.

Who Owns What?

http://www.cjr.org/owners/index.asp

Listings, coverage and forum about media ownership and consolidation, from The Columbia Journalism Review

Yahoo! Full Coverage:Media Mergers

http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/Business/Media_Mergers/

News articles, background and links to sites about mergers in the media.