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Tv networks band together fight backlash Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=808&ncid=808&e=6&u=/dowjones/20030902/bs_dowjones/200309020031000011 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=808&ncid=808&e=6&u=/dowjones/20030902/bs_dowjones/200309020031000011 Business - Dow Jones Business News TV Networks to Fight Backlash Over Station Ownership Tue Sep 2,12:31 AM ET The unexpected political backlash against plans to ease media-ownership rules has prompted the nation's major television networks to band together in a high- profile lobbying campaign to defend the changes, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported. The networks' push, which comes as Congress returns to work this week, represents the opening salvo in what is likely to be one of the most bitter fights in Washington this fall. Armed with fresh data provided by a top Republican pollster, lobbyists for Viacom Inc.'s CBS, General Electric Co.'s NBC and News Corp.'s Fox are seeking to convince lawmakers that voters don't care who owns their local television station and also don't want the government regulating who can. Walt Disney Co.'s ABC supports the other networks, but it wasn't clear how involved that network will be in the lobbying effort. "America Says: Don't Get Between Me And My TV," is the slogan the four networks are using in ads running this week in two Washington political publications, The Hill and Roll Call. The networks are seeking to drum up support for a key part of the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites)'s recent changes to a series of decades-old media regulations. The new rules, passed by the commission in a party-line vote in June, would allow the nation's networks to acquire more of their local affiliates. The changes, among other things, also would make it easier for companies to own both newspapers and TV stations in the same markets. The new FCC (news - web sites) rules, which are due to take effect this month or in October, were greeted with vociferous opposition from Democratic presidential candidates, a raft of special-interest groups from both ends of the political spectrum and a significant number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Opponents fear the FCC move would leave a small number of companies with undue influence over the media. Wall Street Journal Staff Reporters Matthew Rose and Yochi Dreazen contributed to this article.

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