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FCC Filings

FCC Proceedings and State Association Support
The Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, under the guidance of federal legal counsel Richard Zaragoza with the Washington, DC law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw PIttman, LLP, has provided support (in the form of Joint Comments and/or Joint Reply Comments alongside state broadcast associations nationwide) in the following FCC filings:

There follows a further updated listing of the FCC proceedings, and one piece of Federal legislation, in which the various State Broadcasters Associations jointly participated from January 1, 2010 to the present.

2010

  1. In the Matter of International Comparison and Consumer Survey Requirements in the Broadband Data Improvement Act, et al. (GN Docket Nos. 09-47, 51 and 137), NBP Public Notice #30, Joint Comments filed on January 27, 2010 on behalf of the named State Broadcasters Associations in opposition to the reallocation of television broadcast spectrum to the wireless broadband industry. (Rule Making pending)

  2. In the Matter of Review of the Emergency Alert System (EB Docket No. 04-296), Joint Comments filed on March 15, 2010 on behalf of the named State Broadcasters Associations in support, with certain qualifications, of the FCC's proposal to conduct national testing of the EAS.  (Rule Making pending)

  3. In the Matter of Review of the Emergency Alert system (EB Docket No. 04-296), Joint Reply Comments filed on April 13, 2010 on behalf of the named State Broadcasters Associations in response to the filings of other parties whose positions did not agree fully with those of the State Associations. (Rule Making Pending)

  4. In re the Petition for Rulemaking to Amend the Commission's Rules Governing Retransmission Consent (MB Docket No. 10-71), Joint Comments filed on May 18, 2010 in opposition to the Petition and in support of the present system for the negotiation of retransmission consent. (Rule Making pending)

  5. "Resolution of the Fifty State Broadcasters Associations, Including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, In Opposition to a New 'Performance Tax,'"dated May [20], 2009. (Legislation pending)