CFA CU Analysis Shows Extreme Concentration Of News Media Markets Key Commerce Committee Markets Highlighted

MEDIA ADVISORY

CFA CU ANALYSIS SHOWS EXTREME
CONCENTRATION OF NEWS MEDIA MARKETS
KEY COMMERCE COMMITTEE MARKETS HIGHLIGHTED

WHAT: Press briefing by the nation's largest consumer advocacy organizations regarding concentration in local media markets across the country.

WHY: In anticipation of the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Tuesday May 13, CFA and CU will walk through analysis that will be submitted to the committee in their testimony. They will show that media news markets are already highly concentrated. Allowing TV-newspaper mergers and mergers between local TV stations will create local media giants that will severely limit competing news viewpoints.

CFA and CU will release a new analysis of cities with dominant newspapers, and analysis of local TV stations in these cities, and the anticompetitive effects of newspaper-broadcast or broadcast-broadcast mergers.

WHO: Dr. Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America
Gene Kimmelman, Senior Director of Public Policy, Consumers Union

WHEN: Monday, May 12, 2003, 1:30 PM, EST

WHERE: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA
1424 16TH STREET, NW, SUITE 604
WASHINGTON, DC 20036

CONTACT: For More Information Contact Mark Cooper, CFA (301) 384-2204 OR LIZ ROSE, CU (202) 462-6262

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View Files Sorted By Office: Consumers Union OPI, New York - Washington DC Office
West Coast Regional Office - Southwest Regional Office - Consumer Policy Institute

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