Media baron Rupert Murdoch asked the Federal...

Media baron Rupert Murdoch asked the Federal Communications Commission for a waiver allowing him more time to own the New York Post and the Boston Herald, despite recent congressional action forbidding such a move. The petition is another move in the chess game between Murdoch, the FCC and Congress. Federal regulation against media combinations forbids Murdoch from owning papers in Boston and New York, because he recently has purchased television stations in those cities. Earlier waivers granted to Murdoch’s News America Publishing Inc. give him until March 6 to sell the Post and June 30 to sell the Herald. When members of Congress began to suspect that the FCC might dissolve the cross-ownership rule outright, allowing Murdoch the chance to keep his papers, it passed an amendment forbidding any change in the law or new waiver to Murdoch.