Washington Beat

Curious as to when the voting members of the FCC will be holding their monthly Open Meetings next year? The calendar has just been released by the Commission.

As far as the House E&C Chair and Communications and Tech Subcommittee Chair see it, "President Biden's FCC" is wreaking havoc on broadband, thanks to the potential return of "net neutrality." McMorris and Latta will make their viewpoints loud and clear next Thursday at a just-scheduled FCC Oversight Hearing.

The nonresident senior fellow for Technology Policy Studies at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute wants the Commission to kill its live broadcast indecency and profanity regulatory policy. His comments came in response to a November 11 live post-game interview with the fill-in coach for the University of Michigan football team.

With an official Public Notice distributed Thursday, the FCC's Media Bureau says all ATSC 3.0 multicast licensing rules adopted in the Third Next Gen TV Report and Order are now in effect. As such, the Bureau is now ready to accept NextGen TV license applications that involve simulcast multicast streams and/or non-simulcast 1.0 multicast streams.

The MMTC has circulated a letter to Members of the House of Representatives that urges them to oppose an amendment that would defund the federal advisory committee chartered by the FCC to help it develop policies to achieve greater equity in the telecommunications and electronic mass media industries. 

The FCC’s newly created Office of International Affairs has announced its leadership team. They'll oversee an office that will lead and coordinate the FCC’s overseas efforts, including its participation in the upcoming World Radiocommunications Conference, cross-border negotiations, foreign ownership, and national security reviews.

Getting financial investors to sign up to restructuring and the idea of broadcasters "renting" licenses is overly complex. That's a key insight into what it is like to operate a radio and television station ownership group today offered at a Forecast from Estrella Media head Peter Markham.

No, it’s not Apartments.com, but the advocacy group that is focused on America’s Public Television Stations that will be welcoming a former FCC head to its board.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is exploring the subject of AI and its impact on communications during a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing this morning. Led by Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), the goal of the hearing is to determine how the U.S. can leverage AI "to Enhance American Communications."

The grant from the Knight Foundation will enable NABLF to bolster its collegiate programs, provide more internships, increase diversity in the broadcast industry and conduct research to advance the broadcast industry’s career development initiatives.

From 2022 until 2023, he served as head of Strategic Sales at T-Mobile Advertising Solutions and before that was VP/Business Development for Octopus Interactive, which T-Mobile acquired. As of today, he's now the EVP of Political and Strategic Sales for Entravision. He spent two decades at Univision.

Fresh off of a Republican presidential primary debate held in Miami, a fourth Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 election cycle is now on the calendar. The debate will air exclusively on Nexstar's cable television network and will be simulcast in the Eastern and Central time zone on The CW. 

The broadcast home of a hyperlocal television operation branded as “Blab TV,” which serves the Fort Walton Beach-Destin, Fla., area, will need to pay a fine for a delinquency tied to the filing of issues/programs lists associated with the UHF property.

For weeks, the FEMA, in participation with the FCC, promoted the October 4 nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System and the Wireless Emergency Alerts.  For those with a smartphone, the test proved successful. How Radio and TV each fared is perhaps an emergency in and of itself, CTA research finds.

The licensee of a noncommercial religious television station serving the Pacific Northwest's largest market is facing a fine in the thousands of dollars for not providing the FCC with its quarterly issues and programs list in a timely manner.