FCC Advances Broadcast Rule Cleanup

By InsideRadio.com, 3-27-26

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted another round of rule changes aimed at streamlining broadcast regulation, moving forward with most of the revisions proposed under Chairman Brendan Carr’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative – while pulling back on one of the more closely watched proposals involving low-power FM application processing.

Carr says the changes close out “phase one” of the effort. Since the “Delete, Delete, Delete” effort began last year, the FCC says 1,274 rule provisions, 149,566 words, and more than 338 pages have been removed from the Commission’s rulebook.

“The vast majority of deadwood is gone. But we’re not slowing down,” Carr said. » Read More