State Broadcasters Ask FCC to Defer Political File Posting Deadline

State broadcast associations have told the Federal Communications Commission that unless it imposes online political file requirements on cable and satellite operators, it should not do so on them.

Starting in August 2012, the FCC required the top for network affiliated stations in the top 50 markets to post their political files online and set a July 1, 2014 date for the rest of the nation's TV stations to follow suit, pending its review of comments on how the top-50 requirement was working out. The FCC is now collecting and reviewing those comments. The state associations, in a filing at the commission, said the FCC should defer that July 2014 deadline until it applies the requirement to cable and satellite, and repeal the requirement for the top 50 stations in the interim as well.

(Nov 21)