FCC Approves Ownership Rule Changes and Next-Gen TV ATSC 3.0 Standard
At its meeting yesterday, as expected, the FCC approved significant changes to its broadcast ownership rules and also approved the roll out of ATSC 3.0 – the next generation television transmission...
View ArticleFull Texts of Last Week’s FCC Decisions on Ownership and Next Generation...
The FCC late yesterday released full texts of the decisions adopted last week to revise the broadcast ownership rules and approve the next generation television standard (ATSC 3.0). We summarized last...
View ArticleFirst Appeal of Multiple Ownership Rule Changes Filed by Public Interest Groups
Prometheus Radio Project and Media Mobilizing Project, public interest groups who have been opponents of relaxation in the FCC’s broadcast ownership rules, have filed the first Petition for Review of...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals Rejects FCC Ownership Decision – Putting All Ownership...
Yesterday, a panel of judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided by a 2 to 1 vote to overturn the FCC’s 2017 decision that made significant changes to its ownership rules (see...
View ArticleFCC Reinstates 2016 Ownership Order and Gives Instructions for Sale and...
Late Friday, the FCC issued an Order reinstating the FCC’s 2016 ownership rules, recognizing that the changes made in those rules in 2017 (see our post here) were no longer effective because the Third...
View ArticleFCC and Industry Groups Ask for Supreme Court Review of Third Circuit...
On Friday, the FCC (with the Department of Justice) and a group of interested media industry companies filed requests asking that the Supreme Court review the decision of the Third Circuit overturning...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 26, 2020 to October 2, 2020
Here are some of the regulatory developments and legal actions of the last week of significance to broadcasters, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear Appeal of Third Circuit Rejection of FCC Changes to...
The 2017 deregulatory changes to the FCC’s ownership rules have been on hold since December 2019, when the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, overturning those rule changes,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Reinstates 2017 FCC Changes to Broadcast Ownership Rules...
The United States Supreme Court yesterday released its decision upholding the FCC’s 2017 changes to its ownership rules in the FCC v Prometheus Radio Project case (see our summary here). Those rules...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: May 29, 2021 to June 4, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your...
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