Cybersecurity
News Corp.’s U.K. Woes Unlikely to Spur U.S. Action on Licenses
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News Corp. is unlikely to face a push by U.S. regulators to revoke any of its 27 U.S. broadcast television licenses as a result of a U.K. law-enforcement probe of alleged phone-hacking by a London newspaper.
The Federal Communications Commission won’t involve itself in the U.K. probe of allegations that journalists at the now-defunct News of the World newspaper tapped phones and paid police for stories, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said yesterday in Washington.