Broadcasting Cable – Appropriations Bill Protects TV JSAs

May 2, 2017 ‘Lawmakers are using the omnibus appropriations bill to backstop FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s rollback of the FCC’s tightening of joint sales agreement reviews under former chairman Tom Wheeler. The appropriations bill deal announced Monday includes a provision that the FCC can’t require the termination or modification of a JSA as a condition of […]

May 2, 2017

‘Lawmakers are using the omnibus appropriations bill to backstop FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s rollback of the FCC’s tightening of joint sales agreement reviews under former chairman Tom Wheeler.

The appropriations bill deal announced Monday includes a provision that the FCC can’t require the termination or modification of a JSA as a condition of the transfer of a station license.’

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