Non-substantive Change Request

NON-SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE REQUEST FOR

OMB CONTROL NUMBER 3060-0010

The Federal Communications Commission is submitting a non-substantive change request for OMB control number 3060-0010 (FCC Form 323). The reason for the change request is described below.

Currently, FCC Form 323, Section II-A/II-B, Question 2.c asks “Does the Respondent or any interest holder reported in response to Question 2(a) hold an attributable interest in any newspaper entities in the same market as any station for which this report is filed, as defined in 47 C.F.R. Section 73.3555?” This question was relevant to the Commission’s Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Rule, which prohibited common ownership of a full-power broadcast station and a daily newspaper if the station's contour (defined separately by type of station) completely encompassed the newspaper's city of publication and the station and newspaper were in the same relevant Nielsen market. On November 20, 2017, the Commission released an Order on Reconsideration and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in MB Docket Nos, 04-256, 07-294, 09-182, 14-50, and 17-289 (Order on Reconsideration). Among other things, the Order on Reconsideration repealed the Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Rule. Accordingly, Section II-A/II-B, Question 2.c will be eliminated from Form 323.

The Commission is providing the final version of Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations (FCC Form 323) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its files/records.

This non-substantive change will not impact the burden hours or cost for this collection.