The Federal Communications Commission regulates local media ownership to promote competition, diversity and the … provision of local programming. This study investigates how local media cross-ownership, co-ownership and ownership diversity … are associated with media market outcomes. Cross-sectional regressions indicate that television station ownership …

This paper investigates whether ownership in media affects a corporate media coverage. Using a sample of publicly … listed firms in China, we find that firms with media affiliations do receive favorable slant coverage from the financial … media. Two possible explanations are explored, one is firm management hypothesis in which firms actively manage their …