Terse provision slides through as part of massive annual appropriations act TV Joint Sales Agreements (JSAs) have been given a new lease on life, thanks to Congress and the President. Back in 2014, the FCC declared certain JSAs to be “attributable interests” and therefore subject to unwinding by June, 2016. But now compliance with that … Continue Reading
Just like clockwork, OMB has given the FCC the official thumbs up to require the filing of TV JSAs that create attributable interests.… Continue Reading
In case there was any doubt in your mind, the Media Bureau has now officially confirmed the effective date of the new JSA attribution rules.… Continue Reading
What with the Federal Register publication of the new retrans consent restrictions, you had to know that the new limits on TV joint sales agreements couldn't be far behind.… Continue Reading
The full text of the FCC's order imposing new limits on joint sales arrangements between TV stations in the same market has been released.… Continue Reading
Depending on who's doing the including, inclusion of a radio station in an Arbitron market may not be subject to a two-year waiting period for purposes of multiple ownership calculation.… Continue Reading
Townsquare Media thought it had a perfect, and perfectly legal, way to re-shuffle ownership of a bunch of radio stations and finesse its way around the multiple ownership rules. But the only player at the table that really mattered called a misdeal.… Continue Reading
In the Los Angeles market, Viacom is apparently carrying, on one of its HD streams, simulcast programming from a station it owns the San Bernadino market. One of Viacom's LA competitors thinks that that's against the FCC's rules, and has asked the Commission to say so.… Continue Reading
