Washington Beat

While much of the discussion during Thursday's Senate Commerce Committee FCC nominations hearing focused on subjects such as broadband access, Majority Leader Maria Cantwell made it clear that a proceeding started nine years ago regarding streaming media services and “bargaining in good faith” needs to be revived. Curtis LeGeyt couldn't agree more.

In March, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel introduced a proposal that would implement new customer protections requiring all cable TV service providers and both Dish and DirecTV to specify the “all-in” price “clearly and prominently” in their promotional materials and on every monthly billing statement. Now, an NPRM has emerged.

The FCC and the National Science Foundation on July 13 will co-host a workshop that brings together stakeholders to discuss the opportunities that artificial intelligence (AI) presents for spectrum management and network resiliency.

After two failures to file timely renewals for the 2011-2014 and 2019-2022 license cycles and subsequent expiration, the FCC and Pennsylvania’s Good Christian Broadcasting, Inc. have come to a solution to return the station license of WLIH-FM.

After Gigi Sohn's retraction and President Joe Biden's nomination of Anna Gomez to the FCC, broadcasters have wondered how soon could we have a full FCC for the first time in this administration. The Senate Commerce Committee has an answer.

It was only a matter of time before the current Congress held one. An FCC oversight hearing has been placed on the calendar by the now-Republican controlled House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The MMTC, NABOB, NNPA, and the U.S. Black Chambers have come together to endorse the White House's nominations of Anna Gomez, Brendan Carr, and Geoffrey Starks to the Federal Communications Commission.

Starting Tuesday and concluding Wednesday, broadcasters representing broadcast radio and TV groups are in Washington, D.C., to participate in an event focused on what the NAB and the NASBA believe are two important issues effecting the future of linear media.

The owner of a digital VHF television station serving the National Capital Area from Silver Spring, Md., could be on the hook for a fine for its untimely filing of the station's quarterly issues/programs lists and for its tardiness in filing its Children's television programming reports.

On April 17, the FCC released a Report and Order in its proceeding to update the Commission’s Part 74 rules for low-power television and television translator services to reflect the current operating environment.  As of today, the revised rules are now in effect.

They represent two very different sides of the political spectrum. But, if Ed Markey and Ted Cruz can find common ground on the matter of AM radio's continued availability in all U.S. vehicles, "it should highlight just how important we believe it is for Americans to have access," they share.

Gray Television is sharing its pleasure of having received the 2023 Celebration of Service to America Award for TV Ownership Group at a formal ceremony held Tuesday in the Nation's Capital.

In late January 2023, the FCC's Media Bureau took a look at mutually exclusive applications for a noncommercial FM radio station that would bring an added voice to Key West, Fla. One month later, a petition to deny the selection by the Commission of this potential licensee was filed by one of the "MX" applicants. Now, the Bureau is siding with that applicant.

On November 29, 2021, the Media Bureau issued a public notice identifying no less than 231 groups of mutually exclusive noncommercial FM applications, tied to a new station filing window opened by the FCC. Now, the Commission has performed threshold fair distribution of service analyses and used a point system to tentatively select an application for grant in 10 groups of mutually exclusive applications for new NCE FM construction permits. 

Ahead of a Tuesday House Committee on Energy & Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on the value of kHz-band broadcasts to Americans, six public safety groups added their names as supporters of the bipartisan AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, introduced in the Senate and House by politicians who rarely come together in unity over a political issue.