Back in October we reported on a Notice of Inquiry seeking comments on the possible use of frequencies above 24 GHz for mobile services. According to a notice in the Federal Register, the deadlines for those comments have been extended. Comments are no...
We are often asked by television broadcasters if specialty programming – particularly local programming, like a local church’s broadcast of its Sunday morning church service – is covered by the FCC’s closed captioning obligations. In a decision released on Friday, the FCC staff denied the request of a church for an exemption from the rules … Continue Reading
On Friday, the FCC released an Order and Consent Decree by which Journal Broadcasting agreed to pay a fine of $115,000 and to enter into a compliance program to settle complaints that it had not adequately identified that a program aired on its Las Vegas TV station was sponsored by a local car dealership. According … Continue Reading
Five more years of DBS, coming up! We recently reported on the passage of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014, affectionately referred to by the cognoscenti as “STELAR”. As expected, it didn’t take long for the President to sign off...
NPRM seeks to address effects of discontinuance of copper-based services on consumers, competition. As many readers doubtless know (and as we have previously reported), the IP transition is underway: telecom carriers are shifting away from time divisio...
Out for comment: Shift to function-based, rather than technology-based, regulatory approach, and mandatory 100% HAC compliance The Wireless Telecommunications and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureaus are looking to refresh the record in a couple o...
Can we all agree that responding to the invitation to comment on Form 2100, Schedule 318 would be easier if the form were available for review? Like the first sparse snowflakes heralding a major blizzard long predicted but slow to arrive, an announceme...
Last week, the Senate approved a reauthorization of STELA, the new bill called STELAR (the “STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014”), adopting the version that had been approved by the House of Representatives earlier in the month. In addition to simply giving satellite television companies (essentially DISH and DirecTV) the a five-year extension of their rights … Continue Reading
Last week we reported that the deadlines for comments and reply comments on a raft of proposals likely to affect the future of LPTV/TV translator operations had been set. And also as we reported, the odds of getting those deadlines extended were ...