A federal court should put on hold FCC public file Web posting...
A federal court should put on hold FCC public file Web posting rules, the NAB said. The association asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to stay a requirement that some TV stations start posting political files…
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on fcc.gov by Aug. 2, when the rules take effect (CD July 6 p1). “NAB is likely to succeed on the merits because the FCC engaged in arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking by disregarding the competitive harm that is likely to result from the Order and departing from the provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act,” the association said of April’s public-file order. “NAB’s members will suffer irreparable harm absent a stay because the Order compels television stations to post the prices for specific advertisements to a public website immediately after the sales occur. This will place NAB’s members at a distinct disadvantage to their non-broadcast competitors, who will not be required to post rate information on the Internet.” A Media Bureau spokeswoman declined to comment. The emergency motion for stay pending judicial review is in D.C. Circuit docket 12-1225 (http://bit.ly/L6QsJB).