47 C.F.R. §73.3555 - Multiple ownership
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Metro Broadcasting, Inc v. Federal Communications Commission Astroline Communications Company Limited Partnership v. Shurberg Broadcasting of Hartford, Inc
...cross-ownership, cable/television cross-ownership, broadcast service cross-ownership, and common control of broadcast stations. See 47 CFR §§ 73.3555, 76.501 (1989). The Commission has always focused on ownership, on the theory that "ownership carries with it the power to select, to edit, a......
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Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. Fed. Communications Comm'n, 9344
...200 U.S. 321, 337, 26 S.Ct. 282, 287, 50 L.Ed. 499. 1. Although a cable system's local television market is defined by regulation, see 47 CFR § 73.3555(d)(3)(i) (1991), the FCC is authorized to make special market determinations upon request to better effectuate the purposes of the Act. See......
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News America Pub., Inc. v. F.C.C., 88-1037
...Commission may not grant a television broadcast license to a party who owns or controls a daily newspaper in the same community. 2 47 C.F.R. Sec. 73.3555(c). The Commission has, however, provided for both temporary and permanent waivers of the rule. If a broadcast licensee acquires a daily ......
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Prometheus Radio Project v. Federal Communications Commission, 285 B.R. 888 (Fed. 3rd Cir. 6/24/2004), 03-3388.
...and so long as at least eight independently owned and operated full-power television stations would remain in the market post-merger. 47 C.F.R. § 73.3555(b). The Order modified this rule to permit television station triopolies in markets with 18 or more television stations and television st......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Investments In Bank Holding Companies And Media Companies
...C.F.R. Part 225. 4. Ownership of more than 33 percent of the total equity of an entity generally constitutes control under the BHCA. 5. 47 CFR § 73.3555. 6. 47 CFR § 7. 47 CFR § 73.3555. 8. 47 C.F.R. 73.3555, Note 2. Visit us at mayerbrown.com Mayer Brown is a global legal services provider......
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FCC Enforcement Monitor November 2022
...in the market and one that it claimed organically improved its ratings to join the top four and therefore was not in violation of 47 C.F.R. 73.3555, which includes the Local Television Ownership Rule (the “Rule”). The Rule prohibits an entity from owning two full-power television stations i......
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FCC Enforcement Monitor November 2022
...in the market and one that it claimed organically improved its ratings to join the top four and therefore was not in violation of 47 C.F.R. 73.3555, which includes the Local Television Ownership Rule (the "Rule"). The Rule prohibits an entity from owning two full-power television stations i......
7 books & journal articles
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Broadcast technology as diversity opportunity: exchanging market power for multiplexed signal set-asides.
...sections of 47 U.S.C.) (1996). See also id. at [section] 202(a) ("The Commission shall modify section 73.3555 of its regulations (47 C.F.R. 73.3555) by eliminating any provisions limiting the number of AM or FM broadcast stations which may be owned or controlled by one entity nationally.");......
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An Article I, Section 7 perspective on administrative law remedies.
...110 Stat. 56, 111 ("The Commission shall modify its rules for multiple ownership set forth in section 73.3555 of its regulations (47 C.F.R. 73.3555) by increasing the national audience reach limitation for television stations to 35 percent."). (160.) For example, the President had to threat......
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Joint Ventures
...Telecomm. Bureau, to Chris Nierman, Esq., Senior Counsel, Fed. Affairs, Gen. Commc’n DA 15-490, at 2 (Apr. 23, 2015). 137. See 47 C.F.R. § 73.3555, et. seq. . (limiting to two the number of local television stations that an entity can own or control in the same designated market areas under......
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Localism as a Solution to Market Failure: Helping the FCC Comply with the Telecommunications Act.
...the radio limits: "(b) LOCAL RADIO DIVERSITY- (1) APPLICABLE CAPS- The [FCC] shall revise section 73.3555(a) of its regulations (47 C.F.R. 73.3555) to provide that--(A) in a radio market with 45 or more commercial radio stations, a party may own, operate, or control up to 8 commercial radio......
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PL 104-104, S 652 – An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.
...nationally. (b) Local Radio Diversity.-- (1) Applicable caps.--The Commission shall revise section 73.3555(a) of its regulations (47 C.F.R. 73.3555) to provide that-- (A) in a radio market with 45 or more commercial radio stations, a party may own, operate, or control up to 8 commercial......
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PL 105-33, HR 2015 – To provide for reconciliation pursuant to subsections (b)(1) and (c) of section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1998.
...preclude any party from being a qualified bidder for such spectrum on the basis of-- ``(I) the Commission's duopoly rule (47 C.F.R. 73.3555(b)); or ``(II) the Commission's newspaper cross-ownership rule (47 C.F.R. 73.3555(d)); or ``(ii) apply either such rule to preclude such a party ......