Broadcasters Line Up to Support FCC in Media Ownership Appeal
More broadcasters filed motions to intervene on the FCC’s side in public interest groups’ challenge of the broadcast ownership order on reconsideration. Nexstar (in Pacer) cited the order’s changes to rules governing joint sales agreements as giving it the right…
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to intervene in the case, while News Corp (in Pacer), Bonneville International (in Pacer) and 21st Century Fox (in Pacer) pointed to their common ownership of TV stations and newspapers and the order’s elimination of the newspaper cross-ownership rule. Radio broadcaster Connoisseur Media (in Pacer) said the order’s changes to rules governing embedded markets were its reason for intervening. NAB, Sinclair and the News Media Alliance also filed motions to intervene (see 1801290036). An FCC response in the case is due Friday.