COMMENTARY BY RICK MANNING
FCC Should Leave Exclusivity Rule Alone
The FCC seems bent on usurping congressional Article One authority, as its just-announced decision to consider including the “exclusivity rule” on their docket for their next open meeting shows. Let’s be clear: There is no legitimate free-market argument for the FCC to once again overstep its authority and throw local, over-the-air broadcasters into a legal limbo with an existential threat by arbitrarily changing the exclusivity rule.
