As 2026 began, a group of seven radio broadcasting companies united to express their quest for FCC rule modernization — or, as they put it, the removal of “archaic regulatory burdens that restrict radio’s ability to compete in the modern marketplace.”
With the long-delayed 2022 Quadrennial Review of the Commission’s local ownership rules still in process, two longtime radio industry antagonists have now chimed in, with an in-person meeting with an FCC official serving as a platform for their desire to retain local radio ownership rules and market “subcaps.”
