Broadcast company Howard Stirk Holdings filed its own challenge...
Broadcast company Howard Stirk Holdings filed its own challenge to the FCC’s rule that makes joint sales agreements where one station is responsible for over 15 percent of another’s ad sales attributable for ownership calculations, joining the NAB petition filed…
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last week (CD June 2 p1). The JSA rule is “arbitrary and capricious” and violates the Administrative Procedure Act, HSH said in its filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit . HSH had applied for the first waiver under the new JSA rules to allow it to participate in the Sinclair/Allbritton deal (CD April 24 p12), but Sinclair announced a restructuring of that deal to comply with the FCC’s new JSA regulations, which means HSH can’t participate even with a waiver (CD May 30 p4). One of the few remaining broadcast operations owned by an African American, HSH had asked for the waiver on public interest grounds.