Attorneys for Cox, Bonneville, The Scranton Times, Calvary and Morris...

Attorneys for Cox, Bonneville, The Scranton Times, Calvary and Morris Communications met with officials in the FCC chairman’s office and Office of General Counsel to discuss their pending waiver request from the FCC’s ban on newspaper broadcast cross ownership (NBCO). The commission had recently dismissed as moot their joint motion for an extension of time for submitting information about how changes to the rules affect their waiver applications. During the meeting on Aug. 29, “counsel for the Media Parties expressed their concerns that changes to the NBCO Rule and to applicable standards for evaluation of requests for waiver of that rule are still under consideration by the Commission on remand from the Third Circuit and in the pending 2010 Quadrennial Regulatory Review proceeding,” the notice said (http://xrl.us/bnnwcv). Should the commission adopt some of the provisions in its 2010 quadrennial review rulemaking notice, some of the parties wouldn’t need the waivers or at least the standards for granting them could change, the notice said. “Accordingly Media Parties requested that the commission consider deferring the deadline for filing supplemental waiver showings pending the Commission’s decision in the 2010” proceeding, the notice said.