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...
Read moreOn 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreWe 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...
Read moreAs 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...
Read moreBroadcasters 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)...
Read moreThe Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday released an opinion (“Opinion”) in which it vacated and remanded back to the FCC certain of the Commission’s Orders that sought to...
Read moreComment dates have been set on the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) in the 2018 Quadrennial Review of media ownership rules. Comments are due April 29, 2019, and reply...
Read moreThe FCC kicked off its 2018 Quadrennial Review of media ownership rules with the adoption, by a 3 to 1 vote (Commissioner Rosenworcel dissented in part), of a Notice of...
Read moreThe FCC on November 20, 2017 released the text of the highly anticipated media ownership Order on Reconsideration (“Order on Reconsideration”). The FCC significantly liberalized its local media ownership rules...
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