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FCC Fights Court Decision

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FreddyE1977 said:
Pretty routine. Decisions like this go to an en banc appeal (and often the Supreme Court)
all the time.
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Not sure about the Supremes. They will often kick something back to the appeals court unless it deals with a constitutional issue or something major.
 
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/181615/fcc-nab-appeal-court-order-striking-ownership-cap-changes/


The overturned rule changes included:

Eliminating the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule preventing a company from operating a newspaper and a broadcast outlet in the same market.
Eliminating the radio/television ownership subcaps so a television station no longer counts towards the limit of eight radio stations (maximum of five on each band) that a company can own.
Eliminating the requirement that at least eight independently owned television stations must remain in the market following the combination of two television stations in a market
Modifying the ban against common ownership of two top-four rated tv stations in a market to allow waivers on a case-by-case basis
Eliminating the JSA Attribution Rule requiring television stations to count a station it sells more than 15% of ad time for under the ownership cap.
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Here is the decision.
 
So looking through that list, perhaps the FCC was overly optimistic in formulating those new rules.

Maybe the next step is taking just one or two of those items. Its likely Prometheus will challenge whatever new rules the FCC comes up with. But a smaller list is easier to defend.
 
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