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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 20, 2025 to January 24, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on January 26, 2025

Posted in Cable Carriage, Digital Radio, Digital Television, EEO Compliance/Diversity, Fairness Doctrine, FM Radio, General FCC, License Renewal, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television

• President Trump issued several Executive Orders that could affect FCC decision-making, including an Executive Order suspending government diversity, equity, and

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 13, 2025 to January 17, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on January 18, 2025

Posted in AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Digital Television, Emergency Communications, Fairness Doctrine, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television, Tower Issues

• The FCC’s Enforcement and Media Bureaus, under a new Docket opened by the Commission called “Preserving the First Amendment,” dismissed

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