FCC Today with Michi Bradley

Sinclair Broadcasting is in hot water over "Hot Wheels".   CAP Polling ex parte update.

 

Revised filing fees for WTB applicants, including the new Amateur Radio filing fee starts in April.  FCC lowers the boom on three more robocall carriers.  Auction 109 applicant dinged $1K.  FCC announces more NCE tentative selectees.

We're back!  It's spring, and the revocation hearings are in full bloom.  More EZ coming for REC EZ Forms. 

FCC fixes radio rules. $45M megadinger for robocaller.  Rogue TV antenna causes ruckus in a NY town. FCC clamps down on captive contracts in apartments. Auction 112 for TV this summer. 

Mazda owners in Seattle are locked on KUOW... literally!  25 educational FM allotments in the commercial band have been re-reserved to go up for auction.  Hearing being set for KPCQ-AM for long periods of silence.  Dingers for an Auction 109 applicant in Hugo, CO, W264DV and WMOX-AM.  Some NCE MX applicants are getting more time to settle.  How will the FCC handle new NCE broadcasters who did not include diversity statements? 

DKQEK-LP takes the FCC back to court over MB 19-193. $7K dinger for WMOX-AM for operation after expiration.  Rosenworcel declares war on ringless voicemail. 

Rosenworcel drops the hammer on jammers.  Tower unlit for nearly 20 years ordered to finally come down.  NCE applicants are settling.  Rosenworcel announces staff changes including new Media Bureau Chief. 

Media Bureau moves one step closer to retiring CDBS, Land Mobile interests seek to modernize T-Band protection rules, Rosenworcel congratulates Alan Davidson on NTIA post, update on the Roger Wahl revocation proceeding. 

Nutrition Facts style labels for broadband services, recognition of tribal libraries in the E-Rate program, more recognition of write-in candidates in political programming rules, changes to TV white space devices to better protect wireless microphones and modifying equipment authorization rules to align with international standards.

FCC grants iHeart's renewal for WGCI(FM) Chicago amid charges of violent and obscene song lyrics. FCC releases updated broadcast station counts.  Reminiscing about the World Radio TV Handbook.