Michael O'Rielly: “The situation we have today is under our current rules, and those rules have been in place for so long, they haven't…”

I strongly believe that the Commission must be willing to step in to aggressively use authority provided by Congress to preempt these regulatory barriers.

I believe the Commission must tread extremely cautiously when taking any actions with First Amendment implications.

These numbers are picked out of the air. We are not going to see $365 million. It is great for a press release, but it is not going to actually develop.

I am particularly concerned that women and ethnic and racial minorities are underrepresented in ownership of broadcast radio and television stations.