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Court overturns FCC's ban on JSAs

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The U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia today struck down the FCC's two-year-old ban on joint sales agreements between TV broadcasters and scolded the agency for its failure to complete the last two of its congressionally-mandated quadrennial reviews of all its broadcast ownership rules.

The commission cannot ban JSAs "unless it has, within the previous four years, fulfilled its obligation to review that rule and determine whether it is in the public interest. Here the commission put the cart before the horse," the court said.

The court invited the FCC to take a second look at its JSA ban. "On remand, if the commission is able to justify (by finding they are in the public interest) the existing ownership rules to which television JSA attribution applies — or, in the alternative, if it replaces the current rules with new ones it determines to be in the public interest — nothing in our opinion would prevent it from readopting the JSA rule at that time.”
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http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/95020/court-overrules-fccs-ban-on-jsas
 
TheBigA said:
Too bad the court can't scold the Congress about all the mandated things it hasn't done. Like passing a budget.
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That, and in spite of the ruling, don't expect the Commission to allow new JSA's anytime soon. They'll slow walk this until the next administration decides who the new Commissioner will be, as JSA reinstatement gets buried under many layers of other proposed rule makings that potentially brings in money.
 
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