Mignon’s Greatest Hits

[Commentary] Any reckoning of the greatest chairs in Federal Communications Commission history would undeniably include Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn.

In her six-month tenure, Chairwoman Clyburn delivered extraordinary value for entrepreneurs and consumers and, especially, for minorities and women trying to break into the nation’s most influential industries and the one-sixth of the economy these industries represent. As we prepare for Chairwoman Clyburn to pass the torch to Tom Wheeler this morning, we fondly look back and remember twelve of “” for civil rights, entrepreneurship, and technological progress for our nation.

1. Restoring WHGH-AM – The Only Voice for Minority Listeners in Thomasville, GA
2. Reducing Predatory Prison Phone Rates
3. Introducing Minority- and Women-owned Business Enterprise Participation as a Key Factor in the Wireless Competition Report
4. Demystifying and Defending the Universal Service Fund’s Longstanding Program to Help the Poor Secure Lifeline Telephone Service
5. Revitalizing the E-rate Program
6. Approving the Largest Minority Spectrum Deal in US History
7. Solving the Interoperability Crisis
8. Proposing New Rules to Improve Rural Call Completion
9. Resolving the Most Far-Reaching Retransmission Consent Case
10. Commencing First Systemic FCC Hispanic Television Study
11. Taking Proactive Steps to Revitalize AM Radio
12. Promoting Minority Broadcast Ownership by Relaxing Archaic Foreign Ownership Restrictions