Media Bureau Approves Marquee Top 4 Deal

Media Bureau Approves Marquee Top 4 Deal

The FCC Media Bureau has approved another TV deal that involves a top-four duopoly, according to an order in Friday's Daily Digest. The deal involves Marquee Broadcasting's proposed purchase from Imagicomm of KIEM-TV Eureka, California (NBC), and low-power KVIQ-LD Eureka...

NAB Submits Sweeping Broadcast Deregulation Blueprint To FCC

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr asked for ideas to cut outdated broadcast regulations - and the NAB has now given him plenty of ideas to work with. In an 80-page filing backed by a 60-page appendix, the NAB delivered a sweeping blueprint for deregulation.

A Bigger, Broader NAB Call For FCC Rule Reform | Radio & Television Business Report

On April 2, the NAB’s legal team led by NAB Chief Legal Officer and EVP/Legal and Regulatory Affairs Rick Kaplan filed an ex parte letter with the FCC expressing the “urgent need” to eliminate the national cap on broadcast television ownership. That was in response to a Pai Commission-era Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that remains an open Media Bureau docket. Now, Kaplan & Co. have filed a 145-page manifesto that repeats its request for the elim…

FCC Monitor: UP FM at Reduced Power; Minn. LPFM Goes Off Air

The following are updates to previously-reported items and other recent regulatory filings and actions concerning Upper Midwest broadcast stations. This report is created by the author and is not an official report of the FCC. Iowa Educational Media Foundation’s KILV/107.5 (Castana) returned to full power on April 5 after a few weeks of reduced-power operation due to storm damage. VMPP, LLC closed on its purchase of KWPC/860, KMCS/93.1, and KWPC…