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Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper goes Internet Only

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by Bob Hamilton 03/16/2009
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This is the announcement on the Seattle PI website:

The last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published 
Tuesday. The Hearst Corp. announced that the P-I will become the nation's 
largest daily newspaper to shift entirely online.

For many decades radio has had to compete with newspapers for that local advertising dollar...the smaller the market the more the newspaper competition.  The Seattle PI is only one of many newspapers ...
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FCC hearing underway on cross ownership

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by Bob Hamilton 12/18/2007
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1:19pm EST...Commisson votes to relax cross ownership rules..vote 3-2 Republicans saying yes...Democrats no....



Outbursts from the audience demanding less consolidation...Chairman Martin took a five minute break...

Each of the five commissioners are giving lengthy statements on why or why not the FCC should relax rules on ownership of newspapers, ...
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Tags: competition, fcc, localism, newspapers, diversity