Pai Stmt on Modernizing Approach to Foreign Investment
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February 26, 2013Matthew Berry, 202-418-2005
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STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
ON MODERNIZING APPROACH TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN BROADCAST
STATIONS
I am pleased that the Media Bureau is seeking comment on the Coalition for BroadcastInvestment's request that the Commission modernize its approach to foreign investment in
broadcast stations. As I pointed out last September, our current policy on foreign investment as
applied to the broadcast industry is anachronistic, illogical, and bad for minority ownership. 1 I
thank the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council for its leadership on this issue and
hope that the Commission will take swift action following the close of the comment cycle.
1 See Remarks of Commissioner Ajit Pai, National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show at 5-6 (Sept. 19, 2012),
available at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-316374A1.pdf.
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