Washington Beat

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau late Friday extended the deadline for stations to upload responses to their Commission-hosted online public inspection file in response to Equal Employment Opportunity audit letters for 2025.

The non-profit, non-partisan technology policy think tank is urging the nation's highest court to deny the Trump Administration's emergency application seeking to "deprive" the Federal Trade Commission of its independence.

A daytime-only 5kw radio station with 4 towers serving the Hispanic communities in Manchester and Nashua, N.H., and neighboring Lawrence and Haverhill, Mass., has been handed a Notice of Violation from the FCC for failing to identify its call letters and city of license to its listeners.

Wilner Baptiste has received a forfeiture order from the FCC nearly one year after receiving a proposed fine for operating an unauthorized radio station known as “M-One Radio Live” or “M-One Live Radio” in a city to the northwest of the City of New York.

She received her Juris Doctor from Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in May and graduated with a Political Science degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022. Now, this former Alpha Phi marketer and recruiter and competitive ice skater will be serving as a Law Clerk for Brendan Carr.

The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is reminding Emergency Alert System (EAS) participants of the requirement to submit their Form One identifying information in the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) no later than October 3.

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted not to restore government dollars directed toward secular non-commercial radio and TV stations in its FY 2026 appropriations bill. The President/CEO of America's Public Television Stations lamented the latest zero-sum motives of Republicans.

The Television Academy has opted to recognize an organization that is presently winding down operations largely thanks to Republicans on Capitol Hill who voted to rescind its previously authorized federal funding with its 2025 Governors Award.

He had been in poor health and suffered from diabetes, but that didn't stop him from continuing in an iconic role as the Helen Thomas of the internet generation, serving as a longtime member of the White House press corps. Now, journalists, news consumers and politicians are paying tribute to Mark Knoller.

How much will your radio or television station pay the Federal Communications Commission to help fund its fiscal year 2025 budget?  A total of $390,192,000 will come from the assessment and collection of regulatory fees, with a portion of that big total coming from broadcast media.

A D.C. federal appeals court judge has ordered the FCC to abide by a plaintiff request that the agency provide "meaningful access to public records," lest put the ability for the public to remain informed about the Commission's ongoing operations in question.

With the FCC's moves authorizing the permissive use of ATSC 3.0, it seems the FCC accidently hit the delete button a few extra times. As such, the Commission is recodifying language eliminated from three sections of its rules relating to information that must be provided in "non-expedited" applications for the NEXTGEN TV enabler.

FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty has returned from a week-long visit to Alaska, where she met with industry leaders, as well as federal, state, local, and Tribal stakeholders to see firsthand the investments, policies, and hard work driving broadband expansion to some of the nation’s most remote and difficult-to-serve areas.

More than eight years ago, pro-MVPD lobby ACA Connects asked the FCC to review several redundant and outdated recordkeeping and public inspection file rules, including the requirement to maintain a hard copy of "Part 76." The group's wish has been granted.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has appointed a Special Assistant in his office. She will be responsible for managing administrative operations, scheduling, and travel arrangements for the head of the Federal Communications Commission.