Rep Walden: FCC's Wheeler Is Putting JSA Cart Before Quaddrenial Horse

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House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will use his opening statement at the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) hearing on March 12 to defend two proposals that are drawing criticism from Democrats -- getting rid of the prohibition on integrated set-tops and preventing the Federal Communications Commission from making TV joint sales agreement's attributable under ownership regulations unless that is part of an item resolving the 2010 quadrennial media ownership review to Congress that is, as its name suggests, long overdue.


Rep Walden: FCC's Wheeler Is Putting JSA Cart Before Quaddrenial Horse