FCC Ownership Rules Inconsistent With Economic Realities, Gray Says
The FCC’s ownership rules for TV stations in mid-sized and small markets are “inconsistent with economic realities and public necessities,” Gray TV said in meetings this week with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s Chief of Staff Matthew Berry and Commissioner Mike…
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O’Rielly, according to an ex parte filing in docket 09-182. Gray was represented in the meetings by former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, now a partner with Cooley. Gray wants the FCC to relax ownership rules to allow a single entity to own two stations in the same designated market area if one of the combining stations hasn’t produced a newscast in two years or if three other news providers would remain in the market. Gray also asked for reforms to the agency’s rules for failing and satellite stations, to reduce the need for repeat showings that stations merit those designations.