DOD, DOJ, DHS Request Pause on Hemisphere Foreign Ownership Proceeding
The FCC should defer acting on Hemisphere Media's petition for a declaratory ruling on foreign ownership (see 1907100056), said DOJ, DOD and the Department of Homeland Security in a letter posted Friday in docket 19-194. "The Agencies currently are reviewing…
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this matter for any national security, law enforcement, and public safety issues, but have not yet completed that effort." The agencies "will advise the Commission promptly upon completion of our review," the letter said. Miami-based cable network and broadcaster Hemisphere sought permission to be up to 100 percent foreign owned. It operates under a declaratory ruling allowing foreign investors to own up to 49.99 percent in the aggregate of both its equity and voting interests.