Carr Broadcasts Support for ATSC 3.0 Transition
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr signaled his support for the ATSC 3.0 transition in a release Tuesday on a Media Bureau public notice clarifying 3.0 application procedures. “Americans across the country will benefit from Next Gen TV and the improved viewing experience that it enables,” Carr said in the release. “That is why the FCC is working to support and encourage a timely transition. As the broadcast industry continues to evolve, we want to be sure that they can do so while maintaining their core public interest obligations.”
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The public notice clarified the conditions that applications must fulfill to get expedited processing and said the Media Bureau is committed to processing non-expedited applications. Broadcast industry officials told us that under the previous administration, there was a perception that non-expedited applications wouldn’t be processed at all. The Media Bureau announced last week that it had restored inadvertently deleted rules on non-expedited applications (see 2508270060). Broadcasters have been pushing the FCC to promptly begin a proceeding that would create a specific timeline for the 3.0 transition (see 2508210048).