More than half the Senate supports the Music Modernization Act, with five lawmakers signing onto the legislation last week, bringing sponsorship to 51. An aide for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill's author, told us his office is continuing to push for floor action. Hatch is hopeful for passage this year, given the last-minute compromise on an initially controversial amendment from Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn (see 1808030044).

The U.S. economy will take a $2.4 billion annual hit in reduced consumer spending and other damage if the Trump administration imposes 25 percent tariffs on connected devices and printed circuit assembles as part of its threatened third tranche of Trade Act Section 301 duties against Chinese imports, said a CTA impact study Friday. An earlier study that CTA released with the National Retail Federation, well before the first two tranches of tariffs were imposed, said duties on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports, coupled with Chinese retaliation, would reduce U.S. GDP by nearly $3 billion and destroy 134,000 American jobs (see 1805010024).

More than half the Senate supports the Music Modernization Act, with five lawmakers signing onto the legislation last week, bringing sponsorship to 51. An aide for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill's author, told us his office is continuing to push for floor action. Hatch is hopeful for passage this year, given the last-minute compromise on an initially controversial amendment from Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn (see 1808030044).

The U.S. economy will take a $2.4 billion annual hit in reduced consumer spending and other damage if the Trump administration imposes 25 percent tariffs on connected devices and printed circuit assembles as part of its threatened third tranche of Trade Act Section 301 duties against Chinese imports, said a CTA impact study Friday. An earlier study that CTA released with the National Retail Federation, well before the first two tranches of tariffs were imposed, said duties on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports, coupled with Chinese retaliation, would reduce U.S. GDP by nearly $3 billion and destroy 134,000 American jobs (see 1805010024).

More than half the Senate supports the Music Modernization Act, with five lawmakers signing onto the legislation last week, bringing sponsorship to 51. An aide for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill's author, told us his office is continuing to push for floor action. Hatch is hopeful for passage this year, given the last-minute compromise on an initially controversial amendment from Texas Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn (see 1808030044).

White House Counsel Don McGahn phoned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shortly after the chairman announced a hearing designation order in review of Sinclair's doomed deal to buy Tribune Media, Pai said during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. Sinclair faces a $1 billion breach of contract lawsuit from Tribune (see 1807160048 and 1808090042).

White House Counsel Don McGahn phoned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shortly after the chairman announced a hearing designation order in review of Sinclair's doomed deal to buy Tribune Media, Pai said during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. Sinclair faces a $1 billion breach of contract lawsuit from Tribune (see 1807160048 and 1808090042).

White House Counsel Don McGahn phoned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shortly after the chairman announced a hearing designation order in review of Sinclair's doomed deal to buy Tribune Media, Pai said during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. Sinclair faces a $1 billion breach of contract lawsuit from Tribune (see 1807160048 and 1808090042).

Odds are good the FCC will let cable operators opt for electronic notifications instead of the mail for some customer notifications, agency and industry officials told us. Unclear is how far the agency will go. How the agency will deal with the more contentious issue that's part of the same NPRM about carriage election notifications isn't clear, and the agency itself might not have a direction, they said.

Odds are good the FCC will let cable operators opt for electronic notifications instead of the mail for some customer notifications, agency and industry officials told us. Unclear is how far the agency will go. How the agency will deal with the more contentious issue that's part of the same NPRM about carriage election notifications isn't clear, and the agency itself might not have a direction, they said.