The FCC is back to Square One on certain applications for license...
The FCC is back to Square One on certain applications for license transfers and amendments for commercial TV stations. It announced Thurs. that it was going back to its old forms -- those reflecting the old media ownership rules…
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- - while the efficacy of the new rules was being decided in the courts. The FCC put a freeze on the filing of applications Sept. 5 after the 3rd U.S. Appeals Court, Philadelphia, stayed the agency’s new ownership rules (CD Sept 8 p9). Involved are Forms 301, 314 and 315. The old versions of the forms will be effective and available for use upon publication of the FCC’s public notice in the Federal Register. The temporary freeze will end when it’s published. The Media Bureau staff has resumed processing applications filed on the June 2002 versions of the forms. Applications filed on the July 2003 versions will have to be resubmitted on the old forms and requesters encouraged to do so expeditiously after the Federal Register publication.