FCC

8-1 decision upholds the agency’s power to impose penalties against AT&T and Verizon

NEXTGEN TV Annual meeting focuses on datacasting, BPS and the viewer experience

AWS-3 Auction offers 200 spectrum licenses for wireless services around the country and includes major markets

The regulator is requiring eight ABC-owned stations to go through an early license renewal process, something no network O&O has ever been ordered to do

Former Verizon executive had led operations for telco’s private cloud infrastructure

Outage tolerance, redundancy models and expense structures are scrutinized

The filing says that it is “neither fair nor sustainable” for broadcasters and other legacy media be solely responsible for financing the agency’s operations

Regulation In a letter, WABC-TV New York says it ‘submits this license renewal application under protest,” noting the regulator ‘had not demanded early renewal in over five decades’

Public notice says the government could get ‘billions’ by auctioning broadcast spectrum and asserted its the power to yank licenses for ‘engaging in news distortion’

Major trade groups’ filing doesn’t address comments from conservative groups that want to add warning labels for LGBTQ+ or transgender content