FCC Won't Remove Link To 'Transitions' Site Just Yet

The commission has put off its move to transition away from its "transition.FCC.gov" Web site front page.

When the FCC redesigned its Web site in 2011, there were enough concerns about ease of functionality on the redesigned site that the commission also featured a prominent link to the old home page.

Initially, its plan was to have "transitions.gov" redirect to the new home page starting Feb. 3, but that did not happen.

According to a source at the commission, the decision had to do with the ongoing FCC reform initiative chairman Tom Wheeler mandated as one of his first orders of business last fall.

In a status report on recommendations by a reform working group, one of those recommendations was to improve Web site functionality.

Since further changes to the Web site could stem from that reform effort, said the source, the thought was not to make a change twice, so the "transitions" link remains.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.