Ownership Rules

As we previously reported, last month the FCC announced the commencement of its statutorily required 2022 Quadrennial Review proceeding to examine its media ownership rules. According to the Federal Register...

This afternoon the FCC issued a Public Notice (the “Notice”) commencing its 2022 Quadrennial Review proceeding to examine its media ownership rules.  The Notice opens a new docket for the...

Over the dissent of Commissioner Nathan Simington, the FCC issued a significant Forfeiture Order (the “Order”) levying a $518,283 penalty—the maximum allowed by law—against a large media company (the “Company”)...

The Media Bureau has extended by approximately one month the comment and reply comment deadlines in the FCC’s efforts to see a “refresh” of the record in its 2018 Quadrennial...

By recent Public Notice (the “Notice”), the FCC’s Media Bureau has reminded broadcasters that 2021 is a biennial ownership report filing year.  That means that all licensees of commercial and...

We now know the comment and reply comment deadlines in the FCC’s efforts to see a “refresh” of the record in its 2018 Quadrennial Review proceeding.  According to a recent...

As you likely recall, last month the FCC issued an Order (the “Order”) formally reinstating, among other things, the 2017 multiple ownership rule changes that had been challenged in federal...

Earlier this afternoon—and approximately two months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in the Prometheus multiple ownership case—the FCC (1) released an Order (the “Reinstatement Order”) formally reinstating, among...

The U.S. Supreme Court today released an opinion (the “Opinion”) in which it unanimously held that the FCC acted properly and within its discretion when it relaxed several of its...

On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court held the long-anticipated oral arguments on the dual bids by the NAB and FCC to reverse a Third Circuit Court of Appeals...