Pai Hopes for 3rd Circuit Media Ownership Remand
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said he hopes the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remands media ownership rules to the agency with a specific deadline for action, rather than the 3rd Circuit seeking mediation for litigants to arrive at a…
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timeline. Mediation is "a pathway to more delay," Pai wrote Wednesday in a tweet. Another Pai tweet, referring to our coverage of Tuesday's oral argument in the media ownership case (see 1604190041), referred to a judge's asking the FCC's lawyer what was taking the agency so long to act on ownership rules. That tweet linked to Pai's dissent from the 2014 order making it harder for TV stations to have joint sales agreements. Danilo Yanich, a professor whose research has shown JSAs and shared services agreements negatively affect stations' content, said such an effect "is not an abstraction." Yanich, director of the University of Delaware's master's program in urban affairs and public policy, said he was reacting to what he heard about the FCC not always challenging some broadcaster claims on JSAs and SSAs. "My research showed definitively that they do and the FCC and others referred to it in their decisions," Yanich emailed Wednesday of the arrangements' impacts on content.