Federal Communications Commission FCC 17-138
STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER BRENDAN CARR
Re: Amendment of Section 73.624(g) of the Commission’s Rules Regarding Submission of FCC Form 
2100, Schedule G, Used to Report TV Stations’ Ancillary or Supplementary Services, Amendment of 
Section 73.3580 of the Commission’s Rules Regarding Public Notice of the Filing of Broadcast 
Applications, MB Docket No. 17-264; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative, MB Docket 
No. 17-105; Revision of the Public Notice Requirements of Section 73.3580, MB Docket No. 05-6
On October 5, 1962, the Commission amended its public notice requirements for broadcasters.  
For the pop culture enthusiasts here today, that date is probably better known as the day the Beatles 
released their first single and the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, premiered.  While those two are now 
classics, the FCC’s broadcast public notice rules have not aged as well.    
The days of requiring broadcasters to publish a notice in a local newspaper or make an on-air 
announcement about the applications they’ve filed with the Commission should be long gone.  These 
types of requirements simply don’t make sense in the digital age.  So I am pleased that we’re seeking 
comment on whether to allow broadcasters to post these notices online or whether to eliminate these rules 
entirely.  
In today’s Notice, we also propose to reduce reporting obligations for digital broadcasters.  
Congress directs us to assess fees on the revenues these broadcasters generate from providing certain 
ancillary or supplementary services.  But instead of collecting information from the few stations that 
actually have such revenues—that’s less than 15 stations at last count—the Commission currently 
requires all DTV stations to file an annual form.  In other words, we’ve been forcing thousands of 
licensees to spend time and money each year to tell us that they didn’t make any money from providing 
these services.  We should eliminate these kinds of pointless paperwork burdens.  I therefore support the 
proposal to require only those broadcasters with reportable revenues to file this form.  I hope that we will 
move quickly to adopt this commonsense proposal.