Bulletin Categories: FCC Regulatory Reform

The FCC recently set comment dates regarding its late-2024 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM”) considering various revisions to its broadcast radio and television rules. Issued in the final stretch...

The FCC recently set comment deadlines for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM”) seeking comment on any “need for updates to the Commission’s rules implementing the Commercial Advertisement Mitigation...

The Commission recently released a Notice of Inquiry (the “NOI”) considering the feasibility of further opening “some or all” of the upper portion of the C-band (3.98-4.2 GHz; the “Upper...

Last week, via a March 12, 2025, Public Notice (the “Notice”), the FCC launched a new proceeding with the stated purpose of “seeking public input on identifying FCC rules for...

As of today, November 27, 2024, the FCC appears to have let expire the existing waiver of the portion of the so-called “audible crawl” rule that would require broadcasters to...

Thus far, the FCC has received more than thirty comments in response to a Petition for Rulemaking (“Petition”) that urges the FCC to create a new FM station class “A10”...

The FCC recently released a Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) in which it proposes the methodology and allocation of regulatory fee obligations for each type of entity the agency...

Late yesterday, June 10, 2024, a sharply divided FCC released decisions expanding and/or reinstating several crucial broadcast regulations applicable to television and radio stations. We are currently evaluating each of...

As part of the FCC’s agenda for its January 2022 open meeting, the Commission adopted a Report and Order (the “Order”) revising several of its political programming rules in relatively minor ways. ...

At the Commission’s June open meeting today (June 17), the FCC adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Order” and “Notice,” respectively), aimed at enhancing...