Questions Remain About Staff Reductions at FCC

Questions Remain About Staff Reductions at FCC

While the FCC is downplaying the extent of staff departures, uncertainties surround their effect on the agency. Industry officials also said the attrition so far -- 78 employees were announced to have left as of the end of April (see...

This is likely to mark the end of the history of an international broadcaster founded more than 80 years ago to combat Nazi disinformation during the Second World War.

EchoStar: FCC action creates ‘dark cloud’ of uncertainty

The FCC’s inquiries into EchoStar’s terrestrial wireless and satellite businesses are already harming the company’s plans to succeed as the fourth facilities-based U.S. wireless carrier.

NSR: Implications of Coming GOP Majority FCC - Inside Towers

Democratic FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ announcement that last week’s monthly FCC meeting was his last means he’s leaving before the next one on June 26. New Street Research (NSR) Policy Advisor Blair Levin, a former FCC Chief of Staff under Chairman Reed Hundt, says current Commission Chair Brendan Carr does not need a Republican majority to accomplish most of what he wants to do. Levin says there are two notable exceptions: “changing the …