The Latest Breaking News from FCC

I'd love a Peacock merger with Paramount Plus so we have one desirable streaming service rather than two less desirable ones. Here's why government regulations mean it probably won't happen unless these two streaming services get creative.

Recent FCC order “tightens media ownership rules in spite of the statute’s clear deregulatory purpose and the lack of basis for such tightening” Nexstar argued

The Emmy was given in recognition for the innovative design of the Broadcast Incentive Auction, which cleared 84 MHz of spectrum and resulted in $19.8 billion in gross auction revenues

Other items on the tentative agenda for the March 14 meeting include “re-defining ‘high-speed’ internet to match market realities”

The survey commissioned by an opponent of the regulation found that 57% oppose regulating vMVPDs like cable

The proposal has the backing of FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel

AT&T customers woke up with their phones in SOS mode apparently due to a service disruption that has knocked down cellular service and internet, but it has finally been restored.

I'm delighted to pass along this item from Prof. Thomas Merrill (Columbia), whom readers might remember as a guest-blogger from a couple of years ago, and who is the author of The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise, and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State (2022): In Loper Bright Enterprises…

Honorees include BBC, NBC, DirecTV, CommScope, Amagi, Pluto TV, Turner, MLB, the FCC, and others