FCC Chair Brendan Carr recently announced that at its upcoming July 24, 2025, Open Meeting the Commission will consider for adoption a “Direct Final Rule” that, if adopted, will take...
Read moreComment deadlines are now set for responses to the Media Bureau’s recent Public Notice (the “Notice”) seeking to refresh the record in the Commission’s long-pending proceeding considering whether the FCC...
Read moreThe FCC has released its annual Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM”) setting forth its proposed division of regulatory fees to be owed by each type of fee payor for...
Read moreIn addition to its advocacy in the above-described Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding, NAB recently filed an extensive ex parte letter in the long-pending 2017 docket regarding elimination of the broadcast...
Read moreAs we have previously written, in early March Chairman Carr released a Public Notice launching a new proceeding with the stated purpose of “seeking public input on identifying FCC rules...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreLast 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...
Read moreAs 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...
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