ITIF：2025年关于赋予本地广播电视台履行其公共利益义务能力的联邦通信委员会评论报告（英文版）

The fact that the statute places the obligation to act in the public interest on the Commission rather than the party to which it grants a license makes a difference both the content of the obligation and the time at which it occurs. What it means for the Commission to find that its grant of a license would serve the public interest is substantively different from what it would mean for the Commission to impose a public interest obligation on the licensee. The Commission and the licensee are dif