[grc] Prometheus Media Ownership Appeal

[Tom Voorhees]

FYI
Tom

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/third-circuit-gets-media-ownership-appeal/162384

THIRD CIRCUIT GETS MEDIA OWNERSHIP APPEAL

As expected, the U.S. court of Appeals for the Third Circuit will hear the
challenge by Prometheus Radio Project and Media Mobilizing Project [1] to
the FCC's Quadrennial review as too deregulatory, as well as for failing to
adequately address ownership diversity. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had been assigned the case,
[2] but Prometheus and Media Mobilizing had asked it to be transferred to
the Third Circuit, which has been the venue for previous media ownership
challenges, and the motion was unopposed. 

Broadcasters dropped their separate court challenge--broadcasters say the
review was insufficiently deregulatory--in favor of asking an
about-to-be-Republican FCC to reconsider its decision to leave most
ownership regs intact. 

The announcement came the same day that the FCC extended the comment period
on the NAB FCC Quadrennial petition [3], also at the request of Prometheus
and Media Mobilizing. 


Links:
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[1] http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/prometheus-challenges-fcc-media-ownership-decision/160957
[2] http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/dc-court-gets-latest-fcc-media-ownership-appeal/161247
[3] http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/fcc-extends-deadline-opposing-broadcaster-quadrennial-challenge/162368