The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to end a regulation that capped ownership of local TV stations. In a 2-1 vote, the FCC removed the ownership cap, which prohibited ownership of local stations that reached more than 39 percent of TV homes in the United States. Removing the ownership cap has been a priority for FCC chairman Brendan Carr, who has argued the rule created an unbalanced relationship between national networks and station owners and that its removal will spur investment in local news. Big station owners like Sinclair and Nexstar have lobbied for removal of the ownership cap. Carr has said that in lieu of the cap, the FCC will review station ownership case by case.