FCC Won't Change Travelers’ Information Stations Rules To Allow Broadcast of Routine Weather Information
The FCC rejected various filings seeking further revisions to Travelers’ Information Stations (TIS) rules, in an order released Thursday. The filings asked the FCC to rethink its prohibition against the routine rebroadcast of weather information as part of the service.…
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Following its recent order revising the rules, the FCC said it “received a number of petitions, styled as ‘comments,’ asking it to reconsider this decision on the basis that such weather information would help travelers to plan their routes. ... We treat these ‘comments’ as petitions for reconsideration and dismiss them.” The comments rely “on arguments that have been fully considered and rejected by the Commission within the same proceeding,” the FCC said. But the FCC also said it allows TIS licensees to integrate weather broadcasts into their TIS feeds “during times of hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions” and affords licensees “substantial discretion to determine what information is relevant to such conditions.”