FCC Consumer Bureau to Terminate Proceedings
The FCC Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau will terminate more than 1,000 dormant proceedings, including dockets on newspaper/broadcast cross ownership, the digital TV transition and old Section 214 applications, said an order in Monday’s Daily Digest. “We believe that termination…
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of these proceedings furthers the Commission’s organizational goals of increasing the efficiency of its decision-making, modernizing the agency’s processes in the digital age, and enhancing the openness and transparency of Commission proceedings,” it said. Three proceedings that were proposed for termination were kept open after the agency received filings opposing their closing: docket 15-146 on preserving white spaces for unlicensed use, docket 14-261 on MVPD programming distribution and docket 15-99 on the World Radiocommunication Conference. The rest of the proceedings listed in the order’s attachment will be terminated after it's published in the Federal Register, the order said.