WASHINGTON—The FCC has announced a change in it rules to allow legal challenges to be filed with the Commission via e-mail; in certain instances, the FCC might require challenges to be submitted by email. The FCC issued the order last week, Friday, June 3.
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Following some major pushback against the set-top revamp proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the proposal has been removed from the September Open Meeting agenda after not securing the necessary three votes.
Point to dislocations but highlight role as digital uniters.
The FCC’s decision to make joint sales agreements attributable as ownership interests has been thrown out by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Congress does not want Tom Wheeler making any last minute push that it might not agree with.
The FCC is sticking with most of the stuff on the books with the final version of its catalog of covered expenses in the broadcasters’ transition to new spectrum in the post-incentive auction repack, denying most of the tweaks proposed by commenters.
An FCC official said earlier this week that the post-auction transition clock, which gives stations 90 days to file construction permits and a total of 39 months for the transition, is set to begin with the release of the auction closing and reassignment public notice planned for mid-April.
It’s in the books, the FCC will take some time at the end of June to discuss the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard with stakeholders.
