FCC Can Move on 'Data-Driven' QR, Says Starks
The Supreme Court “spoke clearly” in favor of deference to the FCC, said Commissioner Geoffrey Starks in a release Friday about Thursday's Prometheus decision on media ownership (see 2104010067). “We can now move forward confidently to address media ownership in…
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future Quadrennial Reviews in a manner that is data-driven and otherwise fully consistent with our duty to promote and ensure competition, localism, and diversity in the public interest,” Starks said. “Nothing in the Court’s holding upsets our long-established ruling that media ownership decisions must take into account how diversity will be affected.” Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel also emphasized deference to the FCC in her statement Thursday.