Aereo subscribers had little time Saturday morning to access content from their personal DVRs, after being told in an email (we received ours at 10:15 a.m.) from CEO Chet Kanojia that the service would shut down at 11:30 a.m. EDT. Subscribers will be refunded their last paid month of service, he said.

Commenters on the FCC 2014 quadrennial review (QR) of media ownership rules will be able to use demographic data as a basis for their comments, due to simultaneous release of the commission’s 2014 report on ownership of commercial broadcast stations (http://bit.ly/1mnqjYm) and a one-month extension of QR deadlines (http://bit.ly/1sL3hUN), several public interest group officials said in interviews Friday. Although the statistics, garnered from station Form 323 submissions, are less extensive than public interest groups would like, it will still inform comments on the QR rulemaking, said Andrew Schwartzman, senior counselor at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation.

Capitol Hill likely holds little immediate salvation for Aereo, industry lobbyists and observers told us, following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that found the service violated creative copyrights (CD June 26 p1). Broadcasters had fought against Aereo in the case and argued successfully that the service, which allowed customers to stream broadcast content online without paying retransmission fees, was stealing content.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal for changing E-rate, teed up for a vote at the commission’s July 11 meeting, is facing opposition among many groups representing E-rate beneficiaries, including the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the two largest teachers union.

NAB and broadcasters clashed with many pay-TV companies and small broadband providers and local exchange carriers over whether the FCC network non-duplication and exclusivity rules should be eliminated. The broadcasters backed keeping the rules intact to help protect exclusivity rights, in comments that were due last week in docket 10-71. Pay-TV groups and companies argued that the rules are unnecessary in a complex video marketplace. American Cable Association, Dish Network and other pay-TV providers pushed for more retransmission consent reforms in their comments.

A unanimous request by ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) for an independent accountability mechanism for ICANN caught some ICANN 50 conference participants by surprise, said stakeholders who attended the meeting. The GNSO sought a mechanism Thursday to provide “meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community,” which included the transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), said an ICANN transcript (http://bit.ly/1ll91uR).

E-911 technology isn’t at the point where it can meet the standards for location accuracy being contemplated by the FCC, said AT&T and CTIA officials at an FCBA continuing legal education seminar Thursday. The emphasis should be on reaching a point where dispatchers can be sent to an exact address, they said. With the development of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, that level of accuracy could happen “sooner than people think,” said Joseph Marx, AT&T assistant vice president-federal regulatory, not predicting a time frame. No “peer-reviewed” studies have shown that the standards being contemplated are possible in the FCC’s time frame, said Brian Josef, CTIA assistant vice president-regulatory affairs.

A draft order being circulated by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for the July 11 meeting lays out a process for the agency’s rural broadband experiment that’s seen as a test of the competitive bidding envisioned under Phase II of the Connect America Fund (CAF), said agency and industry officials in interviews last week. Wheeler is proposing to spend $100 million over the next 10 years for the experiment, at the upper end of the $50 million to $100 million range outlined in an NPRM, said an agency official. It’s unknown whether the commission will back that figure, the official said.

The NAB will go to court to prevent the coverage areas of its members from being reduced by the FCC’s TVStudy software “if and when that is necessary,” association President Gordon Smith told us Wednesday in an interview to be aired over the weekend on C-SPAN’s The Communicators. Along with the incentive auction, Smith discussed broadcasters’ win in the Aereo case (see separate report above), politics at the FCC and the commission’s ownership policies.

ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) requested more slots on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)-related Coordination Group and asked some questions of the New gTLD (generic top-level domain) Program Committee (NGPC), in its London communiqué (http://bit.ly/1jo8xUW) Wednesday. Thursday was the final day of the ICANN 50 conference, which stakeholders had expected to be dominated by discussions on the IANA transition and Internet governance (CD June 24 p7).