The FCC's Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC) will meet at the FCC in Washington, D.C. Thursday, June 2, from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.fcc.gov/realaudio . MSRC will review progress reports from its Toolkit Development and Local Coordination working gr

MSRC II will hold its first meeting since the commission’s recharting with a new group of members.

The Tuesday morning (March 2) meeting of the Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC) at the FCC will conclude the council's work under its two-year charter. Final reports and best practices recommendations will be presented to broadcast, cable and satellite industry members of MSRC at that meeting, which will inc

The Media Security and Reliability Council adopted a list of recommended best practices for ensuring media facilities are able to continue to operate in times of a national emergency. Media dependence on commercial communications satellites for national distribution was a major concern. MSRC recommended "the vulner

Following the first meeting of MSRC II, the Department of Homeland Security and the FCC will sponsor a public meeting to discuss local media emergency readiness.

The MSRC adopted best practices addressing a number of areas.

The final round of recommendations for preserving a communications conduit to citizens in the wake of national disaster will be put before a special FCC committee next Thursday. The Media Security and Reliability Council (MSRC), a federal advisory committee that reports to FCC Chairman Michael Powell, was formed in the