Implementation of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014

The Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") amends its rules to implement certain provisions of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014. Collectively, those provisions: Extend to January 1, 2020 the good faith negotiation requirements applicable to multichannel video programming distributors ("MVPDs") and television broadcast stations, and the exclusive contract prohibition applicable to such broadcast stations; prohibit same-market television broadcast stations from coordinating negotiations or negotiating on a joint basis for retransmission consent except under certain conditions; prohibit a television broadcast station from limiting the ability of an MVPD to carry into its local market television signals that are deemed "significantly viewed" or that otherwise are permitted to be carried by the MVPD, with certain exceptions; and eliminate the "sweeps prohibition" in the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("the Act").