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NPR, Native Public Media and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters shared concerns about the costs and resources it would take for public broadcasters to comply with the proposed rules.
PBS and America’s Public Television Stations asked the commission to take on obstacles reducing access to public TV channels.
An FCC loophole is causing problems for stations that want to join marketwide launches of the new broadcast technology.
Law firm Foster Garvey PC has seen “an increasing number of licensees” that have “expressed concerns with the binary options provided to answer the question of gender” on some FCC forms.
The commission reined in proposed regulations that had sparked concern at NPR and PBS.
The FCC has signaled its intent to make broadcasters consistently identify when programs have received financial support from a foreign government.
The commission is giving noncommercial TV stations a break on several rules and fees, a move that public broadcasters hope will lead to increased datacasting opportunities.
Advocates are challenging a requirement that stations pay the FCC 5% of revenue from “ancillary or supplementary services,” which they say could hamper adoption of ATSC 3.0.
The new requirement is “regulatory make-work” that “does not serve any necessary or legitimate purpose,” PBS and America’s Public Television Stations argued.