WOLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Appellant,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee,
Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc., Citicorp, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc., Home Box Office, Inc., Hughes Communications, Inc., Southern Pacific Communications Co., MCI Telecommunications Corp., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. and CBS, Inc., Western Union Telegraph Company, Southern Pacific Satellite Co., Viacom International, Inc., National Cable Satellite Corp., Spanish International Network, Inc., Intervenors.
WOLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents,
Western Union Telegraph Company, MCI Telecommunications Corp., Southern Pacific Communications Co., Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc., Hughes Communications, Inc., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and CBS, Inc., GTE Satellite Corporation, Home Box Office, Inc., Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Citicorp, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Southern Pacific Satellite Co., Viacom International, Inc., National Cable Satellite Corp., Spanish International Network, Inc., Intervenors.
SATELLITE SYNDICATED SYSTEMS, INC., Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents,
Western Union Telegraph Company, Southern Pacific Communications Co., Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc., Hughes Communications, Inc., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and CBS, Inc., Citicorp, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Home Box Office, Inc., GTE Satellite Corporation, RCA American Communications, Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Southern Pacific Satellite Company, Viacom International, Inc., National Cable Satellite Corp., Spanish International Network, Inc., Intervenors.
SATELLITE SYNDICATED SYSTEMS, INC., Appellant,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee,
Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc., Citicorp, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Home Box Office, Inc., RCA American Communications, Inc., Western Union Telegraph Company, Southern Pacific Communications Co., American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., and CBS, Inc., Hughes Communications, Inc., GTE Satellite Corporation, Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Southern Pacific Satellite Co., Viacom International, Inc., National Cable Satellite Corp., Spanish International Network, Inc., Intervenors.
WOLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Appellant,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee,
Southern Pacific Satellite Company, Intervenor.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 19, 1983.
Decided June 1, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Donald E. Ward, Washington, D.C., for appellants/petitioners in all cases.
Robert F. Corazzini and Deborah L. Stuehrmann, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for Satellite Syndicated Systems, Inc., petitioner in No. 82-2078 and appellant in No. 82-2079.
Bruce E. Fein, Gen. Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, D.C., with whom Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, John E. Ingle, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, Linda L. Oliver, Counsel, F.C.C., Robert B. Nicholson and Margaret G. Halpern, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellees/respondents. Stephen A. Sharp and Jane E. Mago, Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for F.C.C.
Jack N. Goodman and W. Theodore Pierson, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Home Box Office, Inc.; W. Gilbert Faulk, Jr. and Thomas Pace, Tucson, Ariz., for Dow Jones & Co., Inc.; James R. Hobson and Philip Walker, Washington, D.C., for GTE Satellite Corp.; E. William Henry, Lawrence P. Keller and Harvey J. Shulman, Washington, D.C., for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. were on joint intervenors brief in Nos. 82-2054 and 82-2055.
Michael H. Bader, Kenneth A. Cox, William J. Byrnes, John Wells King, Joel Rothstein Wolfson and Ruth S. Baker-Battist, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenor MCI Telecommunications Corp. in Nos. 82-2054 and 82-2055.
Tedson J. Meyers, Michael W. Faber and Joel S. Winnik, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenor Citicorp in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078 and 82-2079.
Henry Goldberg and Ben C. Fisher for Hughes Communications, Inc.; James R. Hobson for GTE Satellite Corp.; William H. Crispin for National Cable Satellite Corp.; Mitchell F. Brecher and Mark P. Bresnahan, Washington, D.C., for Southern Pacific Satellite Company; Herbert E. Forrest, Washington, D.C., for Spanish International Network, Inc.; Steven S. Fadem, New York City, for Viacom International, Inc.; Thomas J. Casey and Robert N. Green, Washington, D.C., for Western Union Telegraph Co. were on the joint intervenors brief in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078 and 82-2079. Bruce D. Sokler, Joel Yohalem and H. Richard Juhnke, Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for Western Union Telegraph Co.
John D. Lane and Ramsey L. Woodworth, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenor Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, Inc. in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078 and 82-2079.
Joseph M. Kittner and Randolph J. May for ABC, Inc., and Joseph DeFranco, Washington, D.C., for CBS, Inc., were on the joint intervenors brief in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078 and 82-2079.
Mark P. Bresnahan, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for intervenor Southern Pacific Communications Co. in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078 and 82-2079.
Mitchell J. Brecher and Mark P. Bresnahan, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor Southern Pacific Satellite Co. in Nos. 82-2054, 82-2055, 82-2078, 82-2079 and 82-2422.
Jay E. Ricks, David J. Saylor, Peter A. Rohrbach, Washington, D.C., and Carl J. Cangelosi, Piscataway, N.J., entered appearances for intervenor RCA American Communications, Inc. in Nos. 82-2078 and 82-2079.
Before MIKVA and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges, and BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
This case concerns the regulatory regime for key pieces of radio equipment, called transponders, located on domestic communications satellites (domsats). A transponder picks up information broadcast to a satellite by a "transmit" earth station, amplifies it, and relays it back to any "receive" earth station tuned into that satellite. The domsats in the matter before us,
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