Regulatory and Standards

The ruling ‘makes clear the deregulatory intent that Congress had when it set the FCC down on this path of the quadrennial reviews,’ Carr says

Business Chair Brendan Carr applauds promises to create an ombudsman for CBS News; Democrat Anna Gomez says New Paramount will ‘cowardly capitulate’ to ‘agency's ideological demands’

NAB, FCC chair Brendan Carr applaud 8th Circuit’s ruling overturning FCC rules that station groups can’t own more than one of the four most-watched TV stations in a market

Agency has entered into consent decrees with broadcasters in a 2018 case

The manufacturer submitted ex parte comments addressing Pearl TV’s assertions

CTA’s opposition to tuner mandates ‘is equivalent to saying … that no new 5G or 6G phone can be sold until every existing 3G user can use the new tech,’ former ONE Media exec argues

Aug. 7 meeting will include votes on such topics as EAS, disaster reporting, deleting obsolete broadcast regs and the buildout of advanced telecommunications capabilities

‘This is the NAB playbook: if consumers aren’t choosing your tech organically, demand the government make them,’ says CTA CEO Gary Shapiro

SiliconDust argues the broadcast business group’s underlying premise is flawed

In August, the commission will vote on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will re-examine alerting systems ‘from the ground up and explore … fundamental changes to these systems’