Washington Beat

In an ex parte letter submitted to the FCC on Monday (3/26), the NAB urged the Commission to retain its existing standards designed to increase the level of woman-owned and multicultural broadcasting companies in operation across the U.S. Specifically, race-based and/or gender-based eligibility standards should not be considered, the NAB notes.

Today marks a very special occasion for the Recording Academy. It’s District Advocate Day, which sees the activation of group members across the country to meet with their local member of Congress "to discuss important updates to music legislation." Translation: Lobbying is being done to gain support for presently moribund House bills that would impose more royalty fees on radio stations across the U.S.

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The recently launched nonprofit industry organization representing Low Power, Translator and Class A TV Stations is giving its seal of approval to the "Local Journalist Sustainability Act." Says association executive director Michael Lee, "This legislation is surely a sensible investment in the all-important issue of local media trust and transparency."

In an information environment characterized by deep tensions between President Trump and national news organizations, Americans are more divided than ever in their trust of the news media. A new Pew Research Center study confirms this.

Squashing the squatters and banishing the buccaneers of broadcasting once and for all is something Republican FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly is making a key issue, and he's given the Commission's Miami Field Office orders to expedite all cases where pirate stations need to be silenced.

In the view of Mark Jamison, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, social media firms could find content moderation less controversial and burdensome if they look to the market and reevaluate the incentives at play within their platform designs and pricing strategies.

The sale of KITV Honolulu from Hearst to SJL Broadcast Management included

The Chief Counsel for Nebraska Republican Sen. Deb Fischer is shifting from Capitol Hill to the Portals. She's joining the staff of Commissioner Brendan Carr, taking the role of Chief of Staff and Legal Advisor for wireline issues.

The FCC withdrew its support of sports blackouts last fall

Media Information Bureau featured columnist Ken Benner has written countless words related to the practice of how keeping something complicated keeps things profitable, and how "most legislation" serves one party at the expense of another. Benner's at it again, and points to a 35-page "classic example of this" issued Thursday by the FCC.