Broadcasting & Cable

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics are finally here.

The issue of whether or not a station can get out of the simulcasting mandate for ATSC 3.0 is still up for debate, as it is one of the questions that the FCC is currently seeking comments on.

Computer companies, led by Microsoft, have formed the Connect Americans Now coalition and are seeking to access the so-called TV white spaces to close the rural digital divide.

After 53 years with Zenith, Wayne Luplow has announced his retirement, according to an internal memo.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has officially issued the roll back of Title II classification of internet access providers.

CBS said that at 11:59 p.m. MT on Nov. 20 its stations were dropped by Dish as a renewal of their retransmission consent agreement had not been reached.

The proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger has a new obstacle to face before it can be approved, as the Department of Justice has officially filed suit to block AT&T’s $85 billion bid for Time Warner.

Testimony from a representative of the National Association of Tower Erectors to Congress emphasized that the timetable for repacking shouldn’t be rushed.

The latest data report from the FCC on the status of communications in the wake of Harvey is decidedly mixed.

A federal court has upheld the FCC’s ruling that Dish had de facto control over AWS-3 winning bidders SNR and Northstar, allowing the FCC to deny designated entity bidding credits to the companies.

Fox will be broadcasting its New York-based TV stations from the top of One World Trade Center starting early 2018, the station group announced.

Blasting NBC and some of its recent report as “fake news,” President Donald Trump used Twitter to query whether or not it was appropriate to challenge NBC’s broadcast license.

Alabama is the latest state to sign up for the emergency broadband network FirstNet from AT&T, bringing more than half the states under the network.