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Jessica Rosenworcel will be spending a part of September 27 with a virtual trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she will address the Berkeley Law AI Institute. She plans share how the Commission is considering new transparency standards that would require disclosure when AI technology is used in political advertising on radio and TV.

A belated License to Cover application filed by the owner of a low-power television station serving Key West, Fla., has yielded a proposed fine that's bigger than similar occurrences. Why? Their extreme tardiness was singled out by the head of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division.

Brett Guthrie has stepped in to take the role previously held by retired Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). The new House E&C Committee Chairman has revealed who the chief counsels for the 119th Congress will be for the House E&C's various subcommittees.

Congress is marking World Radio Day in a particularly meaningful way: a bipartisan group of 114 US House members has reintroduced the Local Radio Freedom Act, a resolution opposing the imposition of new performance fees, royalties, or taxes on local radio stations.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has promoted from within to fill the position of EVP/Chief Operating Officer and, concurrently, another woman to serve as its EVP of Government and External Affairs and Acting Corporate Secretary.

The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) has issued a statement in which the Washington, D.C. advocacy group "strongly believes" that the recent attempts to mischaracterize and eliminate the Digital Equity Act (DEA) "misses the point of the legislation."

A decade-long moratorium on state-level Artificial Intelligence regulations, which would have impacted broadcast media stations across the U.S., was solidly defeated by a nearly unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has appointed a new Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology. He will serve as the Commission’s principal technical advisor helping to shape spectrum policy, guiding equipment authorization, too. What does this mean for Ira Keltz?

A D.C. think tank has teamed up with more than 70 legal scholars and free speech groups to express their concerns over recent threats by Brendan Carr "to punish broadcasters for airing constitutionally protected speech—an attempt to pressure media outlets through vague legal claims and regulatory intimidation."

He was a Democrat who served as a Commissioner on the FCC until departing earlier this year. Now, he has resurfaced at a entity that has little to do with grain elevators and anything depicted in the classic film Footloose.  That's because Grain Management is a private investment firm.

The office within the Federal Communications Commission charged with administration and management of the agency is seeing a change in leadership. That's because Mark Stephens has retired, leading Chairman Brendan Carr to praise him for his "decades of outstanding service."

The CEO of a major American automaker publicly suggested cutting all radio from entry-level vehicles at the 2026 New York International Auto Show this past week, raising fresh alarms for broadcasters still waiting on Congress to act on saving the AM band, let alone FM.

The FCC is warning broadcasters: modified foreign sponsorship identification rules take effect June 7, giving stations days to meet certification requirements that have survived two compliance deferrals, a court challenge, and years of sustained NAB opposition.

  The decision of former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) not to seek the office yet again has left a relatively clear path for Rep. Ed...