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Brendan Carr on Tuesday joined President Trump and members of his cabinet at the signing of a new Executive Order establishing the White House Task Force on the 2028 Summer Olympics.  The order names Carr to the Task Force and charges him with helping to plan, organize, and execute events surrounding the LA28 Games.

The Commission has voted to launch a review of its system for collecting data on network outages and restoration during major disasters. "This action will pave the way for reforms to the Commission’s Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) to make sure that its benefits outweigh its burdens," the FCC says.

SiliconDust wants the FCC to confront "the DRM problem as it relates to ATSC 3.0 video gateway devices" by presenting two possible solutions. That's the company that sells a NEXTGEN TV gateway device which is whiffing with consumers due to a Huawei component that won't work.

The recent rescission bill that "clawed back" previously approved federal funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appears to be only the beginning of a long-term trend for NPR and PBS Member stations, given the actions seen by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The licensee of a Class A digital television station serving Korean-language audiences in the Atlanta market has signed a Consent Decree with the head of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division, ending an investigation into children's programming rule violations.

It is a group dedicated to protecting journalists and their sources, and in March made it clear that Brendan Carr's decision to investigate "news distortion" claims at the FCC made against CBS News "is a scare tactic, spectacle and show trial." Now, a liberal-leaning foundation has taken its quarrel with Carr up a notch.

Window to the World Communications has signed off on a consent decree with the Chief of the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division that concludes the Commission's investigation into violations of its online public inspection file rules.

The use of a FM booster station to originate programming in order to bring Geo Broadcast Services' ZoneCasting technology to its full fruition is now wholly allowable for those operators who wish to invest in it.

The Federal Communications Commission’s Rules for an upcoming AWS-3 auction will pave the way for approximately 200 spectrum licenses to come to market. The FCC's spectrum auction authority had expired under President Biden and getting it back was a chief priority of Chairman Brendan Carr.

Deregulation. That was one of the topics the current Chairman of the FCC noted in a brief Keynote Address delivered in person on Friday at the MMTC 2025 Former FCC Chairs' Symposium. And, Brendan Carr's comments came right before a keynote from the Democrats' lone voice of dissention on the Commission.

C-SPAN CEO Sam Feist has unveiled a senior leadership realignment and a new addition to the executive team, moves he says are aimed at "enhancing organizational focus, fostering innovation, and strengthening C-SPAN’s public service in a dynamic media environment."

The FCC has voted to remove 11 "outdated and useless" rule provisions covering 39 regulatory burdens from its books as part of the “In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete” docket. By taking this action, the agency "expeditiously deletes rules adopted in a bygone era" —including obsolete regulations rabbit-ear broadcast receivers.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm President Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.

As scrutiny of foreign influence on media grows across Capitol Hill, the NAB is pressing for clarity and parity in how federal rules treat domestic broadcast companies compared to global streaming platforms and international media conglomerates.

From May 2018 through January 2023, she held a "sales acceleration" role at the company and was based in Chicago. Now, this radio advertising sales professional is back at Audacy Inc., and has accepted the role of Manager of Government and Political Partnerships.