FCC Announces Tentative Agenda For March 2015 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that the following items are tentatively on the agenda for the Open Commission meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 26, 2015:

Market Modification: The FCC will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement Section 102 of the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014, which directs the FCC to adopt rules that permit the modification of a commercial television broadcast station’s local television market for purposes of satellite carriage rights, including the promotion of consumers’ access to television broadcast station signals that originate in their State of residence.

Local Number Portability Administration: The FCC will consider an Order addressing the recommendation of the North American Numbering Council regarding what company should serve as the next local number portability administrator.

The Open Meeting is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305 of the FCC, 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, DC.