Federal Communications Commission FCC 18-34
STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER MIGNON L. CLYBURN
Re: Streamlined Reauthorization Procedures for Assigned or Transferred Television Satellite Stations, 
MB Docket No. 18-63; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative, MB Docket No. 17-105
Throughout my nearly nine years of service on the FCC, I have supported proposals that increase 
the viability and standing of our nation’s smallest broadcasters. By streamlining the process for the 
reauthorization of “television satellite stations when they are assigned or transferred in combination with 
their previously approved parent station,” the proposal before us today has the potential to fit squarely 
within this goal while not unduly harming the public interest.
I will acknowledge that my preference would have been to vote on the originally circulated 
version of this item, which tentatively concluded that “changing a station’s parent constitutes a material 
change in the underlying circumstances that the Commission relied upon in granting the most recent 
authorization.”  Nonetheless and importantly, the item still acknowledges that transactions involving a 
change in a satellite station’s parent are fact specific and may have public interest implications.
So, I will vote to approve the item and look forward to the record that follows. My thanks to the 
Media Bureau staff, including Michelle Carey, Julie Salovaara, Ben Arden, Brendan Holland and Sarah 
Whitesell for their work on this item.