Bulletin Categories: Ownership Rules

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...

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the dual bids by the NAB and FCC to allow the FCC’s relaxed media ownership...

The Supreme Court has granted parallel requests by the FCC and the National Association of Broadcasters to review the Third Circuit’s most recent reversal of the FCC’s repeated attempts to...

We write today with an update regarding where things stand in terms of the FCC’s multiple ownership rules, as well as to highlight for you an upcoming deadline—January 21, 2020—by...

As expected, the FCC and the United States Department of Justice this morning filed a formal petition (the “Petition”) with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals requesting that the Court’s...

Broadcasters will have some extra time to prepare and then file their biennial ownership reports.  In a recent Order, the Media Bureau announced that it is postponing (and also lengthening)...