Bonneville Meets With Pai to Praise Past QR, Support Current One

Bonneville International supports past FCC elimination of the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership (NBCO) rule and the agency’s consideration of radio ownership rules in the current quadrennial review proceeding, the broadcaster said in meetings Wednesday with Chairman Ajit Pai, an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr, and Media Bureau Audio Division Chief Al Shuldiner, according to an ex parte filing posted in docket 18-349 Monday. Bonneville is among broadcast intervenors on the FCC’s side in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Prometheus IV challenge of the 2014 quadrennial review and subsequent recon order, which includes the elimination of the NBCO rule. After oral argument appeared to go against the FCC last week, many observers expect some of those rules to be remanded or vacated (see 1906130052).