House Passes FCC Report Consolidation Bill

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The House Monday evening unanimously passed H.R. 2844, the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act.

That is the bipartisan bill that consolidates eight FCC annual reports on Congress, including its cable price and video competition reviews, into a single biennial report.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai praised the House and Energy & Commerce Committee for advancing the legislation.

"The FCC's reporting requirements are numerous, outdated, and unnecessarily burdensome," he said. "Replacing them with a single biennial Communications Marketplace Report will not only enable more efficient use of agency resources, it will also provide Congress and the public with a comprehensive and far more useful set of data that reflects the realities of today's converged marketplace.

John Eggerton
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.