Public Media Groups Want Clarification on Foreign-Sponsored Content

The FCC should clarify that the proposals in the agency’s second NPRM on rules for foreign-sponsored content don’t apply to noncommercial educational stations, as was the case for the initial rules, said America’s Public Television Stations, PBS and NPR in an ex parte meeting with Media Bureau staff last week, according to an ex parte filing in docket 20-299. The modifications in the second NPRM “do not alter the Commission’s prior conclusions and statements about the in-applicability of these rules to NCEs,” said the filing. The FCC should “confirm this understanding in its forthcoming Second Report and Order.” Comments on the NPRM are due Dec. 19 (see 2211160066).