We wrote about FCC Chairman Genachowski's announcement of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine as part of the FCC's repeal of 83 media related rules. Well, the full text of the repeal was released today, and the Fairness Doctrine really was the only real headline. For broadcasters, all of the other deleted rules were even less relevant than the Fairness Doctrine (which had been effectively dead for almost 25 years before it was repealed). 10 of the 83 deleted rules dealt with the "broadcast flag", an FCC rule for digitally watermarking DTV programming so that copies could be identified by their source - rules that were thrown out years ago by the Court of Appeals as exceeding the FCC's authority. Another 57 of the "deleted" rules are rules that are still fully on the Commission's books - just in a different section of the rule book. Decades ago, most broadcast rules were moved out of Part 1 of the FCC rules (which deals with general FCC procedures) to Part 73 (which sets out the substance of the rules for broadcasters). This week's action merely deletes the 53 rules that remained in Part 1, where the entire text of the deleted rule was to refer the reader to the corresponding rule section in Part 73, where the substantive rules still reside and are still fully enforced (including matters such as the FCC's EEO rule). So, when the FCC claims that 83 rules were deleted, that really is not saying much. These non-substantive changes, combined with the almost meaningless deletion of the Fairness Doctrine rule (see our article on that deletion) don't bring any regulatory relief, on a day to day basis, to any broadcaster.