Broadcasters to Appeal Media Ownership Decision to Supreme Court

The National Association of Broadcasters plans on Dec. 5 to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the Third Circuit's decision that leaves most of the Federal Communications Commission's media ownership limits in place.

Apparently, News Corp. will also challenge the rules. There are expected to be a number of petitions filed. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in July upheld the FCC's 2008 decision not to loosen the TV duopoly, radio ownership or TV-radio crossownership rules and vacated and remanded its loosening of the broadcast/newspaper crossownership rule for failure to meet notice and comment requirements.