A handful of dockets the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs...
A handful of dockets the FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau identified as dormant will remain open, said a CGB order released Thursday (http://xrl.us/bnroxn). Among them is a proceeding (04-256) on FCC rules about joint sales agreements among TV stations.…
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A commission review of that proceeding revealed that “further action may also be necessary,” the order said. The same was true of International Bureau docket 98-96, its 1998 review of “Accounts Settlements in the Maritime and Mobile-Satellite Radio Services,” the order said. Other Media Bureau dockets will remain open at the request of some of the parties involved. The CGB declined to close the book on Media Bureau Docket 05-6 regarding the public notice broadcasters are required to give when stations are bought and sold. But the CGB rejected a request from the New Jersey Broadcasters Association to keep open rulemaking proceeding RM-11099, initiated in 2004, regarding FM translator and low-power FM interference rules. The FCC has since initiated a new rulemaking proceeding in docket 99-25 that covers similar issues, the order said. It said the association can re-file the same material in the newer rulemaking proceeding.