The Latest Breaking News from FCC

The NAB has released its policy agenda for 118th Congress for local TV and radio stations

Both U.S. Senators from Penn. told the FCC the station is “a reliable local media outlet that helps residents stay connected to their community and current events”

More than 20 million low-income households may be priced out of internet access as Congress dallies over funding a federal program.

The Emmy was given in recognition for the innovative design of the Broadcast Incentive Auction, which cleared 84 MHz of spectrum and resulted in $19.8 billion in gross auction revenues

Other items on the tentative agenda for the March 14 meeting include “re-defining ‘high-speed’ internet to match market realities”

The survey commissioned by an opponent of the regulation found that 57% oppose regulating vMVPDs like cable

The proposal has the backing of FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel

AT&T customers woke up with their phones in SOS mode apparently due to a service disruption that has knocked down cellular service and internet, but it has finally been restored.

I'm delighted to pass along this item from Prof. Thomas Merrill (Columbia), whom readers might remember as a guest-blogger from a couple of years ago, and who is the author of The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise, and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State (2022): In Loper Bright Enterprises…

Honorees include BBC, NBC, DirecTV, CommScope, Amagi, Pluto TV, Turner, MLB, the FCC, and others

The proposal allow the FCC to add a new alert option to deliver critical messages over television and radio about missing and endangered persons