Final Briefs in NAB, Prometheus Challenges of Ownership Rules Due Aug. 20

Initial briefs are due April 13 for Prometheus Radio Project's petition for review of the FCC’s closing of the 2010 quadrennial review and for NAB's of the FCC’s rules for attributing joint sales agreements to ownership statistics, and their final briefs Aug. 20, said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The cases are consolidated into one proceeding. The order assigns the two petitioners a limit of 9,000 words each, less than half the 19,000 each that they had requested. Cox Media Group, the International Center for Law and Economics, the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and Mission Broadcasting will file amicus and intervenor briefs in the case, the order said.