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Relax Rules to Help News: Gray to Simington

Promote local journalism by relaxing some broadcast regulations, said Gray Television and its counsel, former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, now with Cooley, in a presentation to Commissioner Nathan Simington Friday. Make it easier for broadcasters to make significantly viewed determinations,…

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rule that local news doesn’t count against the 15% programming requirement for local marketing agreements, and relax restrictions for failing station waivers, asked a filing posted Wednesday in docket 20-73. Gray wants the FCC to use DirecTV’s pending license transfer to require it to deliver local stations to subscribers in all markets, to act on classifying over-the-top services as MVPDs, and to expand the currently defunct radio incubator program to TV.