FCC Votes Along Party Lines to Limit TV Joint Sales Deals

Media ownership rules drag on

It’s a good thing the FCC started out with three items that all five commissioners could agree upon because that was the end of the harmony at Monday’s meeting. Over strong objections from both Republican commissioners, the FCC voted 3-2 to make it harder for a TV station to sell advertising time for another in the same market.

The Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Mike O’Rielly, also lambasted the agency for rolling up the agency’s tardy completion of its 2010 quadrennial review of media ownership rules into the 2014 review, putting off any recommendations for changes until June 30, 2016.

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