FCC Prepares to Revisit Broadcast Ownership Rules

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2025 – FCC Chief of Staff Scott Delacourt said Wednesday that the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming broadcast-ownership review will be shaped by fresh legal guidance.

At its upcoming meeting on Sept. 30, the FCC will vote on a proposal to begin this year’s quadrennial review of broadcast ownership rules. The congressionally mandated proceeding considers whether local television and radio ownership limits remain “necessary in the public interest as the result of competition.” 

“There are a couple things that are different this go around,” Delacourt told an audience of FCC veterans, agency officials and representatives from leading wireless and broadband trade groups at a Media Institute luncheon at the St. Regis Hotel.