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For Immediate Release News Media Contact:
December 29, 2006 Rebecca Fisher (202) 418-2359
FCC Media Bureau Posts Staff Reports and Studies on 
Media Ownership Webpage
Washington, DC – The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission 
(FCC) today made public Media Bureau staff reports and studies on media ownership and related 
issues in response to a request from Chairman Martin.  
Media Bureau staff provided copies of all studies and reports, draft or final, regarding 
media ownership, minority ownership, and localism and related issues that were worked on over 
the past several years. These studies and reports are now being made available to the public on 
the FCC’s main website.
The FCC is legally entitled to withhold certain internal documents under the deliberative 
process privilege of Freedom of Information Act Exemption 5D. However, in light of the unique 
circumstances present in this instance — principally, the FCC’s current consideration of the
media ownership rules and the very strong level of public interest in this proceeding — the 
Commission is solely, in an exercise of its own discretion, releasing these materials.
The webpage is located at http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/additional.html.
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