Gray Lobbies Commissioners on Quadrennial Review

Tightening the FCC’s local TV ownership rules would have “negative impacts” on small and rural television markets across the country, said Gray TV representatives in separate meetings Tuesday with aides to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Nathan Simington and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, according to three terse and similarly worded ex parte filings posted in docket 18-349 Thursday. One of Gray’s representatives in those meetings was former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, now an attorney with Cooley.