If true, that's a big surprise -- given all the glowing reviews Gannett's given the Arizona Republic/KPNX-Channel 12 combination that GCI owns in Phoenix. That duo has often been held up as a model of the sort of "synergy" GCI says it gets when it owns a paper and a TV station in the same market. After all, didn't Sue Clark-Johnson rise to president of Gannett's Newspaper Division, from Republic publisher, partly on the strength of those synergies? (Eeewh! Hate that word.)But then I read this comment in response to my request for details on how the Republic got beat on a high-profile local story that went national.
Gannett would like to see the rules relaxed on how many newspapers, TV and radio stations the Federal Communications Commission allows under joint ownership in a single market. And GCI, like many media giants, isn't happy with the proposed new FCC rules.
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