Cable lobby groups plan to sue the FCC to try and stop the end of the national ownership cap rule.
Brendan Carr’s FCC voted to end the the rule, which prevents a broadcast station from reaching more that 39 percent of US TV households, in August. The lobby groups say that the order “arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the harms that will surely follow from allowing broadcast station groups to exceed the National Cap,” Ars Technica reports. [Link: Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap | https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/cable-lobby-to-sue-trump-fcc-over-repeal-of-national-tv-ownership-cap/ | Ars Technica]
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s war on the First Amendment
Brendan Carr’s FCC voted to end the the rule, which prevents a broadcast station from reaching more that 39 percent of US TV households, in August . The lobby groups say that the order “arbitrarily and capriciously ignores the harms that will surely follow from allowing broadcast station groups to exceed the National Cap,” Ars Technica reports .
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