FCC ‘Modernization’ Seeks To Update Broadcast Antenna Sitings

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“During World War II, the Commission adopted regulations regarding the use of common antenna sites,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai notes in a blog post detailing one of the agenda items at the Commission’s October Open Meeting.


Way back in the early 1940s, shortages of equipment and materials were a serious impediment to the introduction of new broadcast services. “Today, however, this is obviously not the case,” he says.

That’s why the Commission will take up a broadcast antenna siting NPRM.

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