The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") adopted an order on June 2, 2003 that modified five of its media ownership rules. The new rules have never gone into effect. Congress passed the FY2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 108-199), Sec. 629 of which instructs the FCC to modify its National Television Ownership rule to allow a broadcast network to own and operate local broadcast stations that reach, in total, at most 39% of U.S. television households. On June 24, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ("Third Circuit"), in Prometheus Radio Project vs. Federal Communications Commission, found the FCC did not provide reasoned analysis to support its specific local ownership limits and therefore remanded portions of the new local ownership rules back to the FCC and extended its stay of those rules. Until the FCC crafts new rules approved by the Third Circuit: common ownership of a full-service broadcast station and a daily newspaper is prohibited when the broadcast station's service contour encompasses the newspaper's city of publication. Combinations that pre-date 1975 are grandfathered. radio-television cross ownership is allowed subject to specific thresholds established in 1999; the number of jointly owned stations increases as the size ...