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Stop Big Media 2006

Contact: Michele Gutierrez
Email: michele@centerformediajustice.org
Started: August 1, 2006

Call to Action:
We all lose when massive corporations like News Corp, Viacom and Time Warner seize control of their local media. These companies plan to create conglomerates with unprecedented power over what we see, hear and read. By joining together, youth, people of color, consumers, public interest advocates, media activists, labor and other groups can fight runaway media consolidation and urge the FCC to put public service before the self-interest of large media corporations.

Goals, Tactics and Background:
In 1996, Congress and the FCC lifted media ownership limits with devastating results. Prior to the change, companies like Clear Channel could own no more than 40 radio stations throughout the country. Today, Clear Channel owns more than 1200 radio stations nationwide, including 11 in the Bay Area.

In 2003, the FCC tried to loosen the 1996 ownership limits even more. People from all over the Bay Area and the country took to the streets, to Congress, to the courts, and filed nearly 3 million comments that stopped the FCC from allowing huge and unaccountable media corporations to get even bigger.

Now the new FCC chairman, former Bush campaign advisor Kevin Martin, wants to hand Big Media the free pass they’ve been lobbying for. And millions of concerned people are here to stop the FCC again.

Join with Bay Area organizations and individuals and tell the FCC, "Enough is enough" – Stop Big Media!