The FCC is tentatively set to vote Oct. 27 on TV-station disclosure,...
The FCC is tentatively set to vote Oct. 27 on TV-station disclosure, the agency said Thursday. That delivers some on Chairman Julius Genachowski’s pledge Monday to act on part of the recommendations of the report on the future of the…
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media industry (CD Oct 4 p4). The report had recommended killing the proceeding and requiring TV stations to disclose the extent they cover their communities with filings available online, not just in paper form. The order on reconsideration of the 2007 enhanced disclosure rule accompanies a further rulemaking notice “proposing to replace television broadcast stations’ public files with online public files to be hosted by the Commission,” the agency said. Also Oct. 27, where the main item will be a vote on changing the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation system (see story in this issue), will be a presentation by the Public Safety Bureau. The bureau will talk about preparations for the Nov. 9 nationwide test of the emergency alert system, in which all radio and TV stations and multichannel video programming distributors will take part.