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The FCC's Media Bureau has quietly rejected a complaint submitted by an Ohio individual seeking election to Congress in 2020 who claimed his political advertisements and radio programs were "censored" by iHeartMedia. What's next for Jim Condit Jr., who wishes to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's second Congressional district?

On Twitter, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel revealed that she's tested positive for COVID-19.  That likely won't be a deterrent for her plans to speak at the upcoming conference and tech expo playing out at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The Associate Bureau Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau has joined the office of FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks as Wireline and National Security Advisor. That's just one of the shifts Starks announced on Thursday.

A group of local broadcasters led by The E.W. Scripps Company has come together to political advertisers with what it believes is "efficient and broad audience reach" on connected TV platforms during what’s expected to be a record election-spending year.

In two weeks, a familiar figure at the Federal Communications Commission will be back at the agency — this time as Chief of Staff to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

The FCC has confirmed what some across the Nation's Capital have been tweeting about since late last week: its Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) has undergone a system upgrade.

SSR Communications wanted a second local service added to the Table of Allotments for Bruce, Miss. The Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau Audio Division said no. Here's why.

President Biden has offered a recommendation of $565 million in advance funding for public broadcasting in his fiscal year 2023 budget. This was met with glee by America's Public Television Stations.

The Audio Division of the FCC's Media Bureau in early March finalized a process that gave Al Shuldiner the final word on identifying the selectee in each group of 15 mutually exclusive applications for new NCE FM station construction permits. Now, the same process has been applied to a second group of NCEs, totaling 19.

As previously reported, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will be holding an FCC oversight hearing on Thursday, March 31. New information about the upcoming affair has been released.

Arthur Liu has been visibly silent as furor over the use of the AM for the Voice of Russia in English, "Radio Sputnik," continues. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America has now stepped in, and wants Liu-led Multicultural Radio Broadcasting to be stripped of its license for not only WZHF-AM, but all of Liu's stations.

If you happen to receive a letter soon from the FCC's Enforcement Bureau, you could be the leader of one of the randomly selected radio and TV stations to be audited in its 2022 review of Equal Employment Opportunity enforcement.

"This is a critical component of the FCC and NTIA’s Spectrum Coordination Initiative under which they are taking actions to strengthen the processes for decision making and information sharing and to work cooperatively to resolve spectrum policy issues," the agencies note.

The three-hour event, which will be held on April 24, is designed to help broadcast organizations develop corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategies and embrace diversity in media and the workplace.

One week ago, the newest Commissioner on the FCC participated in a virtual “fireside chat” at the National Religious Broadcasters Christian Media Convention in Nashville. Now, the Commission is sharing details of Nate Simington's appearance at the event, and how his remarks focused on "the regulatory burdens faced by small broadcasters."