FCC's Broadcast Media Ownership Rules (RL34416) / Charles B. Goldfarb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldfarb, Charles B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--United States.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Congressional Research Service, 2008.

Summary:

We thus remand for the Commission to justify or modify its approach to setting numerical limits.4 As a result of the Third Circuit's stay and remand of the broadcast local ownership rules that the FCC had adopted in 2003,5 the broadcast media ownership rules that had been in place prior to the FCC's adoption of its Order on June 2, 2003 were reinstated-except that in the interim 1 For a detailed d ... Every proposed newspaper- broadcast combination in which the signal of the broadcast station encompasses the entire community in which the newspaper is published is subject to a public interest determination with three distinct steps.11 6 In the Matter of 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review-Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the T ... Since the Third Circuit found that the FCC had failed to justify the numerical limits in the rules it had adopted in 2003, and the new FCC rule incorporates a number of numerical limits in both its positive and negative public interest presumptions, the 2007 Order discussed the record evidence underlying each of the numerical elements in its new newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. ... Under the standard for "failing" stations, a waiver is presumed to be in the public interest if the applicant satisfies each of the following criteria: (1) one of the merging stations has had all- day audience share of 4% or lower; (2) the financial condition of one of the merging stations is poor; (3) and the merger will produce public interest benefits. ... The ownership limits currently in place are those that the FCC adopted in 1996 to codify the language in Section 202(b)(1) of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, but, as a result of the Third Circuit agreeing in rehearing to lift the portion of its stay relating to the FCC's new methodology for defining local radio markets, those markets are defined using that new methodology.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Congressional Research Service, viewed June 9, 2023).