2025-18013: Radio Broadcast Services
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This regulation corrects a previous technical error related to radio broadcast services and updates the criteria for requesting waivers on multiple ownership rules. It specifies conditions under which waiver requests can be considered, including situations involving financially distressed stations and potential public interest benefits from station consolidations.
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Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 178 (Wednesday, September 17, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 17, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 44783] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-18013] [[Page 44783]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 73 Radio Broadcast Services CFR Correction This rule is being published by the Office of the Federal Register to correct an editorial or technical error that appeared in the most recent annual revision of the Code of Federal Regulations. In Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 70 to 79, revised as of October 1, 2024, in section 73.3555, the following paragraphs are added to the end of Note 7: Sec. 73.3555 Multiple ownership. * * * * * Note 7 to Sec. 73.3555: * * * We will entertain waiver requests as follows:
1. If one of the broadcast stations involved is a ``failed''
station that has not been in operation due to financial distress for at least four consecutive months immediately prior to the application, or is a debtor in an involuntary bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding at the time of the application.
2. If one of the television stations involved is a ``failing''
station that has an all-day audience share of no more than four per cent; the station has had negative cash flow for three consecutive years immediately prior to the application; and consolidation of the two stations would result in tangible and verifiable public interest benefits that outweigh any harm to competition and diversity.
3. If the combination will result in the construction of an unbuilt
station. The permittee of the unbuilt station must demonstrate that it has made reasonable efforts to construct but has been unable to do so. * * * * * [FR Doc. 2025-18013 Filed 9-16-25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 0099-10-P
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- Full text (Federal Register) · September 17, 2025
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