Introducing some changes AND a new CommLawBlog contest! As longtime readers have doubtless noticed already, CommLawBlog looks different. That’s because, with the help of our friends at LexBlog, as of June 25 we have upgraded ourselves in a number of respects, some obvious, some not so. The content, of course, hasn’t changed. It’s all there, … Continue Reading
Beginning next Wednesday, July 1, 2015, TV stations affiliated with the Top Four networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) in the top 60 markets will be required to provide 50 hours of video description per calendar quarter. Currently, the video description requirement applies only to commercial TV stations affiliated with a Top Four network that […]
Last month we reported on the FCC’s decision to open up the 3.5 GHz (3550-3700 MHz) band for a wide variety of new uses, making it the new home of the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). While (as we have also reported) a number of issue...
The headline says it all.… Continue Reading
The headline says it all.… Continue Reading
Colorado students propose a mechanism for swift adjudication of interference disputes. When Congress created the FCC in 1934, it ordered the new agency to “Make such regulations … as it may deem necessary to prevent interference between st...
After 81 years, the FCC has still not fulfilled its congressional mandate to "prevent interference between stations."… Continue Reading
After 81 years, the FCC has still not fulfilled its congressional mandate to "prevent interference between stations."… Continue Reading
Wireless Bureau public notice lists “defects” in ASR applications, urges compliance, threatens penalties If you own a tower subject to the FCC’s Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) requirements, the Wireless Telecommunications Bu...