{"id":2435396,"date":"2025-05-16T07:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-20-conservative-groups-sign-letter-calling-on-fcc-to-update-antiquated-and-harmful-restrictions-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:06:55","slug":"over-20-conservative-groups-sign-letter-calling-on-fcc-to-update-antiquated-and-harmful-restrictions-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-20-conservative-groups-sign-letter-calling-on-fcc-to-update-antiquated-and-harmful-restrictions-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 conservative groups sign letter calling on FCC to update \u2018antiquated and harmful\u2019 restrictions &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-20-conservative-groups-sign-letter-calling-on-fcc-to-update-antiquated-and-harmful-restrictions-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2435396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Over 20 conservative groups, led by Heritage Action, have urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr to reform outdated regulations affecting local TV and radio broadcasters. They argue that the current rules, particularly the 39% national television ownership cap, are detrimental and hinder local broadcasters&#8217; ability to compete against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-worked-with-fbi-to-target-threats-prior-to-capitol-riot-company-says\/\" title=\"Parler Worked With FBI To Target Threats Prior To ...itol Riot, Company Says\">larger tech companies<\/a>. The letter highlights that these rules, established over two decades ago, no longer serve the public interest as they stifle innovation and investment in broadcasting. Advocates, including various media organizations, emphasize the importance of local broadcasters in providing essential news and details, especially during emergencies.The call for reform aligns with prior support from a important number of lawmakers and reflects a broader consensus that the marketplace has evolved beyond these restrictions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Over 20 conservative groups sign letter calling on FCC to update &lsquo;antiquated and harmful&rsquo; restrictions<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2122935\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;<\/strong> Myriad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">conservative<\/a> groups are calling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-communications-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Federal Communications Commission Chairman <\/a>Brendan Carr to reform the agency&rsquo;s &ldquo;antiquated and harmful&rdquo; rules governing local TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3345870\/brendan-carr-fcc-deregulation-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">radio broadcasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, led by Heritage Action, is signed by leaders from the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform, Bull Moose Project, the James Madison Institute, and others. <\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-business\/3410990\/trump-price-control-medicine-executive-order-pharmaceutical-industry\/\">Trump&#8217;s drug price controls are the wrong prescription for a real problem<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3409517\/immigration-labor-shortages-system-reform-trump-mass-deportations-skilled-unskilled-workers\/\">Past is prologue: Immigrant crackdowns lead to labor shortages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3411705\/san-francisco-courts-ai-retailers-revitalize-city\/\">San Francisco courts AI, retailers in effort to revitalize city<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The FCC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/fcc_broadcast_ownership_rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">states<\/a> that &ldquo;there is no limit on the number of television stations a single entity may own nationwide as long as the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >station group collectively reaches<\/a> no more than 39 percent of all U.S. TV households.&rdquo; The groups argue the repeal of that 39% national television cap is necessary to allow local broadcasters to compete in an evolving media environment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans across the political spectrum agree that burdensome, arbitrary regulations are limiting local TV and radio stations&rsquo; ability to compete with Big Tech in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohioans-to-vote-on-legal-status-of-abortion-cannabis-tuesday\/\" title=\"Ohioans to vote on abortion and cannabis legality on Tuesday.\">modern media landscape<\/a>,&rdquo; National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;We are grateful for the wide-ranging support to modernize these outdated broadcast ownership rules and echo the call for the FCC to level the playing field so local broadcasters can provide the most-trusted news, live sports and entertainment to every listener and viewer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While these rules may have served the public interest in last century&rsquo;s marketplace, they have long since become antiquated and harmful by stifling investment and innovation in broadcasting,&rdquo; the groups wrote. &ldquo;We encourage the Commission to expeditiously repeal these regulations, specifically the 39% national television cap, local TV duopoly rules, and local radio ownership caps.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The letter follows the backing of<a href=\"https:\/\/nab.org\/documents\/newsRoom\/pdfs\/050625_Senate_Letter_Ownership.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> 22 Republican senators<\/a> in their own May 6 letter to Carr and a bipartisan letter from more than <a href=\"https:\/\/nab.org\/documents\/newsRoom\/pdfs\/032825_Media_Ownership_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">73 House legislators<\/a> on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under President Trump&rsquo;s leadership, the Administration is unleashing a new wave of economic opportunity by ending the regulatory onslaught from Washington,&rdquo; Carr said in a March statement. &ldquo;For too long, administrative agencies have added new regulatory requirements in excess of their authority or kept lawful regulations in place long after their shelf life had expired.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The FCC is committed to ending all of the rules and regulations that are no longer necessary,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Local broadcasters compete directly with Big Tech, streaming services, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Know...ge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> in the marketplace of consumer content,&rdquo; the groups wrote. &ldquo;Yet, unlike their competitors such as YouTube and Facebook, broadcasters are limited by the ownership rules in how many households and consumers they can reach. This is an inherent disadvantage. Local broadcasters provide a service in the national interest impossible for their competitors to replace. In times of crisis and emergency, local broadcasters play a central role in delivering timely, localized and often lifesaving information.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They wrote that without reform, &ldquo;valued local broadcast radio and television services could disappear entirely.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;By eliminating the national television cap, local TV duopoly restrictions, and local radio ownership caps, broadcasters can better achieve the scale and efficiencies necessary to compete &mdash; and to attract vital investment &mdash; in a fragmented and rapidly evolving information market,&rdquo; the letter adds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3312070\/lawsuits-targeting-trump-executive-orders\/\"><strong>HERE ARE THE LAWSUITS TARGETING TRUMP&rsquo;S EXECUTIVE ORDERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cap, approved by Congress over two decades ago, limits any one broadcast group from reaching more than 39% of the U.S. audience. Back then, there was opposition to raising the cap because it was thought that it would give big networks too much power over local programming. But now streaming services and platforms like YouTube reach an unlimited audience.<\/p>\n<p>A 2017 FCC docket sought to investigate whether the cap should be raised, but it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.nab.org\/2025\/04\/02\/its-time-for-the-fcc-to-eliminate-its-arbitrary-national-broadcast-ownership-cap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">was left unresolved.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2122935\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2122935\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 20 conservative groups urge FCC to update outdated rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FCC-1024x593.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55366,16609,32311,52532,55367],"class_list":["post-2435396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-conservative-groups","tag-fcc","tag-free-speech","tag-media-regulation","tag-policy-update"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FCC-1024x593.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435400,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435396\/revisions\/2435400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}