FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for January 2017 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced that the following item is tentatively on the agenda for the January Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 31, 2017:

Streamlining the Public File Rules: The Commission will consider a Report and Order that would eliminate the requirement that commercial broadcast stations retain copies of letters and e-mails from the public in their public inspection file and the requirement that cable operators retain the location of the cable system’s principal headend in their public inspection file.