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Nexstar's Sook Meets With Pai on Ownership Cap

The FCC should eliminate the national ownership cap and “remove an unnecessary barrier to the ability of local television stations to compete in the evolving media marketplace,” said Nexstar CEO Perry Sook in a meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai Thursday,…

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according to an ex parte filing Monday in docket 17-318. Sook was accompanied by former FCC Chairman Dick Wiley, now chairman emeritus at Wiley Rein. The national ownership cap doesn't "support diversity, localism, or competition," said a presentation attached to the filing.