FCC Media Bureau Seeks Comment on Petition for Rulemaking Seeking Expansion Of Online Public File Obligations To Cable And Satellite TV Operators
August 7, 2014
The Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause and the Sunlight Foundation filed a Petition for Rulemaking requesting that the Federal Communications Commission “initiate a rulemaking to expand to cable and satellite systems the requirement that public and political files be posted to the FCC’s online database.”
The FCC now seeks comment on the petition. The FCC also seeks comment on whether the Commission should initiate a rulemaking proceeding to require broadcast radio stations to use the online public file, and on an appropriate time frame for such a requirement.
Interested parties may file comments on or before August 28, 2014 and reply comments on or before September 8, 2014.
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