WKYU-FM To Feature Report
On Media Ownership Rules
July 04, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - A special report on changes in media ownership rules will be featured on Tuesday's Mid-Day Edition on Western's Public Radio.
"FCC and Media Ownership: Diversity in Democracy or Media Monopoly?" is produced and hosted by Dr. Terry Likes of Western Kentucky University's School of Journalism and Broadcasting. Mid-Day Edition begins at 11:30 a.m. CDT.
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission voted to ease restrictions on ownership concentration in commercial television markets and on cross-ownership of television stations and newspapers in the same market.
The report by Dr. Likes examines whether the FCC changes would help large media companies grow larger and how media mergers would affect the diversity of ideas.
The segment features interviews with Sam Donaldson and John Cochran of ABC News; Neal Shapiro and Bob Dotson of NBC News; Al Tompkins of Poynter Institute for Media Studies; Deborah Potter of NewsLab and a former CBS and CNN correspondent; and Bob Freeman of WFIE-TV in Evansville, Ind.
Western's Public Radio is WKYU-FM (88.9) in Bowling Green/Glasgow, WDCL-FM (89.7) in Somerset, WKPB-FM (89.5) in Henderson/Owensboro and WKUE-FM (90.9) in Elizabethtown or online at http://www.wkyufm.org/
For more information, contact Terry Likes at (270) 745-2007. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
