Sources: FCC Oversight Hearing Planned

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The Senate Commerce Committee plans to schedule an FCC oversight hearing, likely March 8, according to industry sources.

 All three commissioners are expected to testify--the commission is down two members, a Democrat and a Republican.

The committee, headed by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), should have a lot to talk about given FCC chairman Ajit Pai's flurry of FCC reform announcements and his rolling back of various FCC decisions, most in the waning hours of the previous Democratic Administration.

 A committee spokesperson had no comment.

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.