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Can merge Miami newspaper, station
In a behind-the-scenes boon to Tribune, the Federal Communications Commission has given the company a waiver to combine the operations of WBZL-TV in Miami and the Sun-Sentinel newspaper in nearby Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Under the FCC's newspaper-- broadcast cross-ownership prohibition, joint ownership of a daily newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market is usually forbidden.
But Tribune has been permitted to hold both properties under temporary waivers from the FCC since 1996, when it acquired the TV station from Renaissance Communications.
As part of a deal with the agency at the time,...