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Auxiliary Facilities  In 2015, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to eliminate outdated rules in order to promote the conversion of analog remote pickup facilities to digital. The NPRM is available here. The pleading cycle in this proceeding closed in 2015. CALM Act/Loud Commercials In 2011, Congress enacted the CALM Act with the aim of ending loud commercials on TV, and the FCC’s rules implementing the CALM Act went into effect in 2012. To comply, TV stations must use equipment that adheres to the A/85:2013 standards adopted by the Advanced Television Standards Com...

The scope of prohibited ICTS Transactions include transactions between U.S. persons and a “ person owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign adversary.” The definition of this category of persons includes the following: Any person, wherever located, who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or any other capacity at the order, request, direction, or control of a foreign adversary; A person whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed or subsidized in whole or in majority part by a foreign adversary; Any...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: WHAT: The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has established a new voluntary program designed to match critical technology companies with vetted sources of private capital. WHEN: On December 1, 2020, DOD issued a Request for Comment on the Trusted Capital initiative; comments are due February 1, 2021. On January 13, 2021, DOD formally announced the establishment of the Trusted Capital Digital Marketplace. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR INDUSTRY: Companies in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) seeking investments may consider this initiative to ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Foreign ownership of US wireless telecommunications and broadcast entities is capped at 25%, absent approval from the Federal Communications Commission. In recent years, the FCC has formalized its review of foreign ownership requests and has allowed up to 100% foreign ownership in some cases. The FCC will not, however, approve a request for increased foreign ownership until that request has also been reviewed and approved by certain executive branch agencies, commonly referred to as “Team Telecom,” as well as by the Committee on...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 30, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) International Bureau published a Public Notice seeking comment on a set of standardized national security and law enforcement questions (Standard Questions) for applicants whose applications will be referred for foreign ownership review to the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (the Committee)—the inter-agency working group previously referred to as “Team Telecom.” This ...