FCC Adds Ownership Studies to Official Record

Federal Communications Commission Complies with Office of Management and Budget's Rules

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/23/2008 2:39:00 PM

The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday entered its peer-reviewed, and media-activist-criticized, ownership studies into the docket for comments on its media-ownership review.

That review was effectively over as of Dec. 18, when the FCC voted to modify its ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership but do no more to loosen -- or tighten -- its media-ownership rules.

But according to Media Bureau chief Monica Desai in a letter also filed in the docket, the commission was making them part of the official record to comply with the Office of Management and Budget's rules on publicizing peer-reviewed studies used in making regulatory decisions.

An FCC spokesperson was not available for comment on the data drop, but the agency has been under fire for its processes, so the move may simply have been an effort to make sure it had complied unequivocally with the OMB requirement.

Those rules require federal agencies to "make available to the public the written charge to the peer reviewers, the peer reviewers’ names, the peer reviewers’ report(s) and the agency’s response to the peer reviewers’ report(s)."

Desai pointed out in the letter that the studies and their reviews were already published on the FCC's Web site last fall, but were now being made part of the official docket.

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author
• Most Popular Pages

No related content found.

Also by this author

• Huff Heads to WJLA Sept. 7

• Hallmark Ready To Resume Negotiations

• Union Membership: How Tweet It Is

• FCC Praised for Continued Call for Comments

• Kerry On Net Neutrality Debate: Take a Deep Breath

Also by John Eggerton

Most Popular Pages

No Top Articles

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Parks Associates

  

  Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups throug..more

---

Most Recent Resources

• Multi Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurposing
• The CIOs Guide to Videoconferencing Security Keeping Pace with th..
• Extracting and Preparing Metadata to Make Video Files Searchable
• Robust Encoding, Transcoding and Streaming Systems – Critical B..
• Simultaneous Multi-Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurpos..