FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty recently took a trip to Utah and Kansas to highlight the "golden age of communications," and she took time to visit the Gray Media-owned CBS affiliate in Kansas' state capital and the headquarters of Bonneville International Corp. in Salt Lake City.
A group of nine full-power FM radio stations and five FM translators serving non-secular radio audiences across small towns and cities in Eastern Colorado and Kansas will soon be added to the roster of noncommercial broadcast stations linked to a 100kw FM in rural Copeland, Kansas.
As Bureau Chief Erin Boone sees it, the updates reflect current application processing requirements, clarify and harmonize provisions, and remove references to outdated procedures and legacy filing systems. The R&O earned a 3-0 unanimous vote, thus removing it from the FCC's March Open Meeting docket.
The nation's largest audio content and creation company and No. 1 licensee of broadcast radio stations and the unit of the company that owns a MVPD, a "Big Four" TV network and the Peacock streaming platform have each announced that they're launching programming wrapped around the nation's 250th birthday.
For the GOP, further rule "modernization" 30 years after the passage by President Clinton of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is of interest. For Democrats, countering consolidation by protecting diversity of voices and opposing the Media Bureau's approval of the Nexstar-TEGNA merger, is Issue No. 1.