NAB Blog: FCC Media Ownership Rules Out Of Date

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NAB Senior Deputy General Counsel JERIANNE TIMMERMAN posted a blog today regarding the FCC's 2014 QUADRENNIAL REVIEW of media ownership regulations, which was posted in the FEDERAL REGISTER today. 

Titled "Let’s Do the Time Warp Again – The FCC’s Ownership Rules Remain Stuck in 1975," TIMMERMAN insists those rules, which assert that “non-broadcast video programming distributors” are not meaningful competitors in local TV markets, virtually ignore a host of 20th and 21st century technologies (including cable, satellite, mobile devices and the internet) to retain its local TV ownership restriction."

In their latest findings, published today, the "FCC yet again retained the prohibition on the common ownership or operation of a daily newspaper and a radio or TV station in the same market. In maintaining a ban adopted in 1975, the FCC essentially concluded that little or nothing of import has changed in the news industry and the marketplace position of print newspapers and broadcast stations for the past 41 years – a nonsensical position on its face."

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