Broadcasting&Cable
Parents Television Counsel Calls for Reconstituting Content Ratings Board (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 17:42House Commerce Committee Strikes STELAR Renewal Deal (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 18:35Third Circuit won't review decision throwing out much of the FCC's broadcast ownership deregulation order (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 18:28House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler Offers Latest STELAR Renewal Effort (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 15:40Big Tech Gets Small Business Committee Vetting
The House Small Business Committee took its turn at running Big Tech through another Hill gauntlet at a hearing titled "A Fair Playing Field? Investigating Big Tech’s Impact on Small Business." Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) started the hearing by praising Amazon and Google for agreeing to send witnesses, and pointing to the two empty chairs for no-shows Facebook and Apple.
House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Advances 9 Bills
The House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications and Technology advanced nine bills in a markup session Nov 14. Eight of the bills moved with little controversey:
Senate Commerce Committee Approves READI Act Redux, which would improve emergency alerts (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 17:09NAB Joins FCC in Challenging Third Circuit (Broadcasting&Cable)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/07/2019 - 16:30FCC Challenges Court's Smackdown
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking full-court review of a three-judge panel decision vacating its broadcast media ownership deregulation decision. The FCC filed a petition for review, arguing that the three-judge panel decision imposed burdens beyond those allowed in the Administrative Procedure Act, second-guessed the FCC to the point that it undermined congressional intent, and breaks with higher-court and sister-court pr