FCC Will Hold Year-End Meeting by Conference Call

By Doug Lung
published

As you may have noticed from the announcements this Christmas week, the FCC is very busy.

Tuesday the FCC announced it would hold an open commission meeting via conference call on Tues. Dec. 30. No agenda items were listed in the announcement, which said the meeting was “regarding Commission announcements.”

The meeting follows the cancellation of a Dec. 18 meeting that had several items scheduled, including one related to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s plan for nationwide free Internet service and one related to the ongoing battle between cable systems and independent programmers. But Martin cancelled that meeting entirely after Democratic members of Congress urged him to focus on the DTV transition.

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Doug Lung
Doug Lung

Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack.
A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.