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President Donald Trump’s nomination of Nathan Simington to fill a slot on the FCC cleared the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday. If Simington is approved by the full Senate, Republicans and Democrats each would have two seats on the FCC, setting up a deadlock in the early days of Joe Biden’s administration…

FCC chairman Ajit Pai said Monday that he plans to depart the agency on January 20, which will create an opening to allow the incoming Joe Biden administration to form a Democratic majority on the commission. Pai, a Republican, has been on the commission since 2012, and has been chairman through the Trump…

With the White House set to shift parties in January, powerful regulatory agencies the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission face sweeping issues with big implications for tech and entertainment, from antitrust and privacy to net neutrality, legal immunity for Internet platforms and…

WarnerMedia parent AT&T today named former FCC chairman William Kennard chairman of the telecom giant’s board effective in January when current chair (and former CEO) Randall Stephenson retires. AT&T announced its plan to elect an independent chairman when Stephenson, who held both positions since 2007, stepped down in…

UPDATED with Twitter response: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social media giant’s handling of an oddly sourced New York Post story about Hunter Biden was “wrong.” Twitter disabled links to the story, eliciting an outcry by President Trump and the GOP and prompting the FCC to announce a review of longstanding rules…

The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it has agreed to hear a longstanding case dealing with the FCC’s attempt to relax restrictions on local media ownership. The Federal Communications Commission had referred the case — FCC, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al. — to the high court in April, supported by the…

Nathan Simington has been nominated by Donald Trump to fill a vacancy on the FCC, after the White House withdrew Michael O’Rielly’s nomination to serve another term on the commission. Simington is senior adviser in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which specializes in network and…

The FCC Monday granted AMC Networks’ motion to withdraw a complaint filed last month against AT&T that accused the media giant of abusing its market clout and favoring its own networks after merging with Time Warner. The complaint was withdraw after the two sides reached a new carriage agreement, according to an…

AMC Networks has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission accusing AT&T of penalizing the The Walking Dead broadcaster in favor of its own competing channels like HBO and TNT by insisting on "discriminatory" terms to renew its affiliation agreement. AT&T called AMC Networks' complaint “without…

The White House withdrew the nomination of Michael O’Rielly to serve another term as commissioner at the FCC, just days after he gave a speech in which he signaled his opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order to try to limit liability protections for social media companies. O’Rielly, a Republican who…

The two Democrats on the FCC are blasting the agency’s decision to settle investigations into Sinclair Broadcast Group with a record $48 million fine. Earlier this month, Sinclair agreed to pay a $48 million civil penalty — the largest imposed on a broadcaster in the FCC's history — to close three open government…

The National Association of Broadcasters opened a virtual show on Wednesday with a far different scenario than envisioned just a few months ago —  the dire situation for some radio and TV stations amid the coronavirus pandemic. In his address to broadcasters, NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith said, “We know this is…