Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
- FCC Commissioner Simington issued a statement supporting a recent letter from former FEMA leaders to the Department of Transportation highlighting AM radio’s importance for public safety. The letter was to address the concern about AM radios being left out of electric cars. He said that the issue “deserves urgent attention”; that “as adoption of electric vehicles increases, we must not leave behind those in rural areas who depend upon radio for their news and alerts”; and that the FCC must “be good stewards of the AM radio band” by “safeguarding reception of AM radio from arrogation by incidental and unintentional radiation.”
- The FCC’s Media Bureau proposed…
