HARRY C. MARTIN
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FCC Update: Powell offers plan to spur DTV transition
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
FCC Chairman Michael Powell has sent to Congressional leaders a plan to spur the national DTV transition.

FCC Update: Video: description rules in place
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
On April 1, 2002, the Commission's video description rules for video programming became effective.
Multiple ownership rules clarified
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
In January, the FCC released a decision addressing 14 petitions for reconsideration dealing with the new TV duopoly and cross-ownership rules. The new
EEO rules invalidated
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the EEO rules that became effective in April 2000. The
DTV buildout
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
May 1, 2002, is the deadline for commercial stations in the top-30 markets to complete construction of their DTV facilities. In the past the FCC has granted
DTV buildout
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
May 1, 2002, is the deadline for commercial stations in the top-30 markets to complete construction of their DTV facilities. In the past the FCC has granted
United States and Canada sign DTV agreement
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
A letter of understanding was signed by the United States and Canada to accommodate cross-border DTV allocations. The letter covers DTV operations within
LPTV processing relaxation postponed
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The FCC has postponed until Jan. 15, 2001, the effective date of its relaxed definition of "minor" change for LPTV, TV translator and Class A television
New regulatory initiatives for TV
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
In three separate actions the FCC has moved to standardize or expand reporting requirements relating to the public interest obligations of TV broadcasters.
New FCC rules for descriptive programming
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
After five years of study, the FCC has adopted rules requiring all television stations to accommodate the needs of the visually-impaired audience.Stations
TV auxiliary frequencies disappearing
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The FCC has adopted procedures for the forced removal of TV broadcast auxiliaries from the 1990- to 2025MHz band, and it has taken back the new broadcast
Online disclosure
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The FCC has decided that the public files of every TV and Class A TV station, whether commercial or noncommercial, will be hosted on a cloud-based system
Spectrum sharing
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
As part of its push to repurpose television broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband use, the FCC has, since 2010, been promoting the idea of channel
Band clearing continues
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The thinning of the ranks of Class-A television stations continues. The FCC has begun downgrading a number of these stations to LPTV status, thereby making
CALM Act approved
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to implement the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM Act), which the president
Broadcast tower rules
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The FCC is proposing new processing rules and interim procedures designed to give the public an opportunity to comment on proposed ASR-dependent towers
Equal Employment Opportunity
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
Now is the time to put your EEO house in order.
Incentive auctions
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
Three new pieces of legislation would compensate broadcasters for giving up spectrum.
Incentive auction OK'd
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
Congress has passed the long-awaited spectrum auction legislation, and the President has signed it into law. Television broadcasters got most, but not
Voluntary TV spectrum auctions
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
New bills address the ongoing spectrum auctions
STELA passed
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The long-delayed extension of the law covering direct broadcast satellite retransmission of television stations became effective at the end of May. While
Must carry survives
By HARRY C. MARTIN published
The Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal filed by Cablevision relative to last year’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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