Media Bureau Denies Foreign-Sponsored ID Stay
The FCC Media Bureau denied a request to stay the foreign-sponsored content rules from NAB, the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and the Multimedia, Telecom and Internet Council, said an order posted Wednesday. The groups jointly filed their initial…
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brief in a legal challenge of the rules in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Tuesday (see 2112080047). Claims that the rules are overbroad and focus on the wrong entities “do not withstand scrutiny, and largely simply repeat issues raised, considered, and rejected, during the rulemaking proceeding,” the bureau said. Broadcaster arguments that the FCC didn’t establish that foreign agents leasing broadcast content is an existing problem are illogical, staff said: “There is no requirement that the American public suffer some requisite amount of harm before regulatory intervention is justified.” The broadcasters overstated the possible harms of the rules, the bureau said: “Requirements adopted in the Order are a reasonable extension of licensees’ existing obligations and should not require an overhaul in how licensees operate nor impose undue costs.”