NAB: No Place Like Home For Joint Sales Appeal

摘要

If the National Association of Broadcasters was a sports franchise, they would be one that does better at home than on the road. And with that home-field advantage in mind, it has told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that it doesn't wish to see the four challenges to the FCC's decision-which would make most TV joint sales agreements attributable as ownership interest-moved to the Third Circuit. Broadcasters have good reason for keeping their FCC challenges close to home, historically speaking. The D.C. Circuit has a reputation as a conservative court, friendly to industry views about the limits of regulation. On three occasions, it has struck down net neutrality rules, citing them as overreaches of authority, and essentially deep-sixed the FCC's national limits on cable system ownership.