The FCC’s Ambivalent Approach to Broadcast Regulation

Eric Fruits November 20, 2025

Truth on the Market View Original Source

• 
  Back
  to Top

A pair of proceedings currently before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) illustrate a puzzling incongruity. While the agency proposes in one docket to eliminate broadcasters’ ownership restrictions, in another, it explores imposing new regulations on their contractual relationships. This divergence highlights how the FCC’s flexible application of the “public interest” standard may serve the interests of incumbent firms, rather than those of consumers.

Read the full piece here.