Washington Beat

Dick Blumenthal has asked the FCC's Acting Bureau Chief of the Enforcement Bureau and its Acting Bureau Chief of the Media Bureau to provide more details about what he calls the Commission’s recent “unprecedented, intrusive investigations against media broadcasters under arbitrary and capricious pretenses.”

She was the first woman to serve as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and an "enthusiastic and effective supporter" of public media. Now, House Members and New Yorkers are paying tribute to former Congresswoman Nita Lowey, who has died.

The Council is designed, in the FCC's words, to "leverage the full range of the Commission’s regulatory, investigatory, and enforcement authorities to promote America’s national security and counter foreign adversaries, particularly the threats posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

The FCC has moved ahead with two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking that will effectively unwind an effort from Gray Media to shift a pair of its television stations from VHF signals to UHF channels, as the company has run out of time to do it.

"Brendan Carr, stop that CAR!" That's pretty much the message the NAB's legal team is sending the FCC with respect to its consideration of a news distortion complaint from a group that has vociferously attacked CBS for offering viewers two different answers to the same question posed to former VP Harris.

NAB Chief Technology Officer Sam Metheny recently wrote of the “fragility” of the satellite-based GPS system, one that Diamond Consulting principal Patrick Diamond says has no backup. One possible solution is the NAB's own Broadcast Positioning System. The March FCC Open Meeting could see a discussion on it.

Would MVPDs and voices of the cable television industry protest a NAB petition with the FCC requesting mandated transition dates for TV stations to adopt ATSC 3.0 broadcast signals? Perhaps. If so, the Consumer Technology Association, which had fought against the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, has their back.

The Associate General Counsel in the House of Representatives' Office of General Counsel has just been named the Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission.

The senior U.S. Senator from Nebraska who has served the state in the upper body of Congress since 2013 committed “to advance sensible policies that will promote strong Nebraska families and communities” has been named Chairman of the important Senate Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media.

A key Democratic U.S. Senator has written to the Acting Assistant Attorney General within the Department of Justice's antitrust division, urging Omeed Assefi to "closely scrutinize" the proposed acquisition of Fubo by The Walt Disney Company.

A low-power television station serving a portion of the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico has entered into a Consent Decree with the Video Division of the FCC's Media Bureau to resolve issues pertaining to its application for a license to cover.

While in Miami for a symposium with Hispanic media leaders, FCC Commissioner Anna Gómez took time out to visit the Paramount Global-owned WFOR-TV. Gómez has been vocal in her opposition to a Republican-fueled probe into a CBS News interview with Kamala Harris.

Nexstar has named a VP of Political Sales, responsible for building and managing the company’s newly created national political sales division, creating and developing go-to-market political ad strategies across all of its platforms, and generating significant growth in linear, digital, and connected TV political revenue.

The only woman serving as an FCC Commissioner will be participating in a roundtable discussion at Florida International University on Wednesday afternoon with a Federal Trade Commission Commissioner and five key U.S. broadcast media executives to discuss and debate "barriers to entry" for Hispanic and Latino media.

TechFreedom has filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the U.S. to declare that the FCC's "hands-off method of running the $9 billion Universal Services Fund violates the Constitution.