Relaxing Ownership Data Requirements Would Conflict With 3rd Circuit Directives, Leadership Council Says
Reducing or eliminating collection of ownership data in FCC media deregulation efforts would be “inconsistent” with Chairman Ajit Pai’s commitment “to make policy based on sound data and objective analysis,” said the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in…
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a letter to him Thursday in docket 17-105. Broadcasters asked the FCC to relax ownership reporting requirements (see 1707060060). Doing so would undermine efforts to increase ownership diversity and could run afoul of 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directives that such data be used as the basis for FCC policy, the council said. “Any Commission decision to reduce, rather than augment, media ownership data collection would violate the mandate of the federal court.”