Wiley is one of the nation’s top lawyers and represents both broadcasters and cable operators, as well as telcos and others in the communications industry....More
Gordon Smith, president and CEO of NAB, last week called on the agency to approve the proposed merger, saying the free market is best suited for satisfying the spectrum demands of wireless carriers....More
The council offers guidance to the commission and recommends how the FCC can advance the reliability of the nation’s communications infrastructure....More
All licensees of TV Pickup stations in the 7GHz and 13GHz bands have until the deadline to make an electronic filing of the receive site locations....More
In a filing with the appeals court, the FCC said its decision was consistent and reasonable within the law, which it had the discretion to interpret....More
The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Office of Engineering and Technology will host a workshop March 13 to explore the technologies for use in the 3.5GHz band....More
Twelve organizations issued a joint statement rejecting proposals to change the way rights holders are remunerated when copies are made within the European Union....More
The association sent a letter today to the FCC, recounting the points made yesterday between upper-level NAB staff and FCC personnel about a public notice proposing changes to OET-69....More
The FCC has granted the Shreveport, LA, station a partial waiver of its new online database rule and granted the waiver to other “similarly situated stations.”...More
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology this week released “TVStudy” software that provides coverage and interference analysis that will guide the DTV spectrum repack....More
The FCC reminded television broadcasters this week that they have till Monday, Feb. 4, to upload legacy items in their public inspection files to the commission-administered online database....More
The new UK Programme Group for Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) will discuss how to allocate white spaces fairly between rival operators, including DTT and mobile providers, while developing a suitable white space regulatory framework....More
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a preliminary ruling for Free To Air broadcasters to continue showing clips from premium TV football matches to which pay TV operators hold exclusive rights....More
The NAB and key wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Intel and Qualcomm, have agreed on several core principles for reorganizing TV and wireless operations in the 600MHz band after the spectrum auctions....More
In particular, the summit will examine closing the broadband gap among low-income households, minorities, seniors, rural residents, those in Tribal lands and people with disabilities....More
Station engineers have said that the audio levels of the original commercial spots and other content being ingested on a daily basis are all over the spectrum....More
Now that the CALM Act is the law of the land, broadcasters have no latitude regarding audio levels. To ensure that it is in full compliance with Congress’ mandate, Fisher Communications, a broadcast communications and media company based in Seattle, recently announced that it has chosen Digital Nirvana’s Monitor IQ Essentials 3.0 package as its tool set....More
The country is planning to merge its two EBU (European Broadcasting Union) members, National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) and the National Radio Company of Ukraine (NRU), with the State Television and Radio Company Kultura, to create the new Public Service Broadcasting of Ukraine (PSBU)....More