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. @FCC makes it official - Courtney Reinhard, chief counsel for the Senate Communications Subcommittee, is now Space Bureau chief. @Comm_Daily reported 3 weeks ago this was in the works. @MontyTayloe
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Very interesting episode with @MPORielly and two long-time @Comm_Daily reporters. How the story gets made! BTW, I think @Comm_Daily has been publishing for close to a half century now. Quite an achievement!
TMT with Mike O'Rielly is out with Episode 45, exploring what goes into a @Comm_Daily story by hearing from Monty Tayloe and Matt Daneman. A really interesting behind-the-scenes look. Take a watch! @FSFthinktank
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Communications Daily retweeted
TMT with Mike O'Rielly is out with Episode 45, exploring what goes into a @Comm_Daily story by hearing from Monty Tayloe and Matt Daneman. A really interesting behind-the-scenes look. Take a watch! @FSFthinktank
youtube.com/watch?v=Q8L9-fRx…
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ICYMI: Lobbyists don't expect @SenateCommerce to reschedule Republican FCC nominee Danielle Thumann's confirmation hearing until November, when the post-election lane-duck session begins. My report w/ @MontyTayloe last night for @Comm_Daily: communicationsdaily.com/arti… (1/2)
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READ THIS (from @Comm_Daily): 18 Former FCC Officials and Diverse Groups Back Disney in Amicus Filings. MMTC joined the coalition in backing the filing of amicus briefs in Disney’s lawsuit against the FCC in the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit.
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BREAKING: @SenateCommerce postponing Thursday confirmation hearing for GOP FCC nominee Danielle Thumann
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As I reported w/ @MontyTayloe earlier for @Comm_Daily: communicationsdaily.com/arti…. @SenateCommerce had been trying to expedite Thumann's hearing because she was due shortly, but she had the baby a few days earlier than expdcted.
Per Senate aide, @FCC confirmation hearing is be postponed because @DanielleThumann had a baby
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. @EchoStar to @FCC: Your Wireless Bureau was wrong when it said the $2.4B trust fund you had us set up was just for third-party expenses, not our own. @Comm_Daily
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Georgetown's Howard Shelanski at #TPIAspen: there’s an argument for the FCC merging with NTIA under a narrowed regulatory remit, given their common spectrum interests. C-band altimeter dustup shows need for better FCC coordination with executive branch. @Comm_Daily
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The director of a hedge fund known for downsizing newspapers is going to own 31.86% of Cumulus when it emerges from bankruptcy. Read about it in @Comm_Daily
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. @ATT: We've closed on the $22+ billion acquisition of @EchoStar 3.45 GHz and 600 MHz spectrum licenses. @Comm_Daily about.att.com/story/2026/ech…
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. @FCC commishes unanimously OK revamp of satellite and earth station licensing. Under the new regime, most applications 'will breeze through' quickly, with it bringing speed and predictability, @BrendanCarrFCC sez. @Comm_Daily
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NTIA indicates it's going to resume the Digital Equity Act's competitive grant program that the White House yanked in 2025. Court agrees with admin. that the racial component of the grant program is unconstitutional. @Comm_Daily ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin…
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. @SpaceX to @FCC: We need tons of uplink spectrum capacity for AI, and going to start going into milimeter wave bands like W and D bands. @Comm_Daily
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. @Echostar to @FCC: making us put some spectrum sale money in escrow to pay off wireless network suppliers could jeopardize those spectrum sales. Also says it's settled with many of those suppliers @Comm_Daily
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. @dishwireless to pay $17M fine to settle fraud allegations it signed up ineligible people for the FCC's Emergency Broadband Benefits Program and Affordable Connectivity Program, DOJ says. @Comm_Daily
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.@NTIAgov's @ArielleRoth at @NTCAconnect conference: asked about BEAD non-deployment funds, gives no specifics. Timing of Commerce guidance? 'As quickly as possible.' Lists many of the non-deployment use ideas NTIA has heard, sez agency still sorting thru feedback. @Comm_Daily
Satellite Systems Are Seeking Bond Waivers, Citing FCC Move Away From the Requirement
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Judge Nunley has extended the Nexstar/Tegna TRO by seven days while relaxing some of its terms. He appears to be aiming at a longer term injunction: “There is no evidence in the record to contradict the Court’s findings" from the original TRO order, he wrote.
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34 yrs ago this week, projection TV sales going along swimmingly, per #TelevisionDigest. Also reports that FCC unlikely to delay deadline for stations to implement HDTV. From the @Comm_Daily longbox.
