[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 77005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-30093]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[MB Docket No. 14-50, DA 14-1809]


Congress Extends Television Joint Sales Agreement Compliance 
Deadline

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In this Public Notice, the Media Bureau announces that 
recently enacted legislation has extended the compliance deadline for 
parties to certain attributable television joint sales agreements 
(JSAs) to come into compliance with the Commission's broadcast 
ownership limits.

DATES: December 19, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information on this 
proceeding, contact Hillary DeNigro, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#276f4e4b4b46555e096342694e4055486741444409404851"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84ccede8e8e5f6fdaac0e1caede3f6ebc4e2e7e7aae3ebf2">[email protected]</span></a>, or 
Benjamin Arden, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1250777c78737f7b7c3c536076777c527471713c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f8ba9d969299959196d6b98a9c9d96b89e9b9bd69f978e">[email protected]</span></a>, of the Industry Analysis 
Division, Media Bureau, at (202) 418-2330. Press inquiries should be 
directed to Janice Wise, (202) 418-8165. TTY: (202) 418-7172 or (888) 
835-5322.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 15, 2014, the Commission released a 
Report and Order in the 2014 Quadrennial Regulatory Review--Review of 
the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted 
Pursuant to section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In the 
Report and Order, the Commission adopted an attribution rule for 
television JSAs, establishing that same-market television JSAs for more 
than 15 percent of the weekly advertising time for the brokered station 
are to be counted toward the brokering station's ownership totals, just 
as the Commission has long done with respect to radio stations. The 
Report and Order provided a two-year compliance period--from the 
effective date of the Report and Order--for parties to same-market JSAs 
in existence as of the release date whose attribution results in a 
violation of the broadcast ownership limits to come into compliance 
with the broadcast ownership rules. Subsequently, the Media Bureau 
announced that the effective date of the Report and Order was June 19, 
2014, and the two-year compliance period would end on June 19, 2016.
    The STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014 (STELAR) was enacted on 
December 4, 2014. In STELAR, Congress provided that licensees with 
attributable television JSAs ``shall not be considered to be in 
violation of the ownership limitations [in section 73.3555 of the 
Commission's rules, 47 CFR 73.3555,] by reason of the application of 
the [attribution] rule'' until six months after the end of the two-year 
compliance period adopted by the Commission. The six-month period ends 
on December 19, 2016.

Federal Communications Commission.
Thomas Horan,
Chief of Staff.
[FR Doc. 2014-30093 Filed 12-22-14; 8:45 am]
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