D.C. Starts Year With Heat Wave

摘要

As members of Congress headed home after a late December session, a lot of unfinished business remained on the communications front. Meanwhile, the FCC's broadband team was looking at the commission as a second home for the holidays, with officials working toward their looming Feb. 17 deadline for the national broadband plan.rnThe year ahead looks to be an extremely busy one, with the broadband plan implicating both broadcasting and cable (and virtually every other sector of the economy), media-ownership rules getting a vetting in the FCC and in the courts, network neutrality teed up, key court cases on content and network management, and perhaps even must-carry. Much of that action is front-loaded in January (see sidebar).