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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT:
July 21, 2010 Jen Howard, 202-418-0506
Email: jen.howard@fcc.gov
FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI STATEMENT ON 
3RD CIRCUIT MEDIA OWNERSHIP FILING
"Today our General Counsel filed a brief in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 
defending the Commission's authority to make the changes to our media ownership rules that the 
Commission adopted in 2008.  While the rules being challenged were adopted before I became 
Chairman, I support our General Counsel in arguing that the order was within the discretion of 
the Commission and the brief’s general defense of the Commission's authority to make decisions 
based on the information before it at the time. 
"Congress required the Commission to review media ownership rules on a quadrennial basis and 
the agency is in the middle of the 2010 ownership review.  The review requires us to look at any 
changed facts in the marketplace based on a record which the Commission is now assembling, 
while ensuring that our rules promote the lasting public interest goals of competition, localism, 
and diversity.  Our 2010 quadrennial review will focus on these values, in the interest of an 
informed citizenry and vibrant media marketplace."
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