FCBA Holds First In-Person Annual Dinner Since Pre Pandemic
The FCC's 2-2 deadlock, Commissioner Brendan Carr's dance moves and the agency's expiring spectrum auction authorization caught darts from FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in her address Thursday night at the FCBA annual dinner. A crowd of close to 1,500 attended…
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the event at the Marriott Marquis in Washington -- the first such in-person "telecom prom" since 2019. Being the first woman to deliver the chair's traditional monologue, Rosenworcel quipped she "will receive only 83% as much laughter." She made multiple jokes about the 2-2 commission, likening it to a World Cup score and, pointing to next congressional session's Senate, said "getting a one-vote majority sounds pretty good to me." With the FCC's spectrum auction authorization expiring, she said she would have some 4.9 GHz band spectrum available directly after her speech. Showing a video clip of Carr doing "the floss" dance move, Rosenworcel joked there are "ulterior reasons Brendan doesn't want people looking at TikTok." She also took jabs at such targets as Amazon, the AT&T/Time Warner combination, local news broadcasts and Communications Daily's new sister publication, Communication Litigation Today.