Eshoo Lauds FCC Foreign Sponsored Content Rules Taking Effect
Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., hailed the FCC putting into effect its disclosure requirements for broadcasters airing foreign sponsored content (see 2203150077). The rules, which Eshoo said Tuesday the agency adopted “at my urging,” still face a broadcaster-led legal challenge in…
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the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. As Russian President Vladimir Putin “wages a brutal war against Ukraine, any Russian attempts to broadcast their propaganda is unacceptable,” Eshoo said. “I call on every station broadcasting Russian Sputnik (RT) under existing agreements to voluntarily come into compliance before the regulations require them to do so.” NAB asked its members earlier this month to stop broadcasting Russian state media (see 2203010067).