STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
Re: Expansion of Online Public File Obligations to Cable and Satellite TV Operators and Broadcast 
and Satellite Radio Licensees, MB Docket No. 14-127.
I am pleased to support this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.  The Commission must modernize 
its rules to reflect the digital age in which we live, and moving more regulated entities’ public files online 
is a step in the right direction.  I also appreciate the incorporation of many of my suggestions for reducing
regulatory burdens as a part of this effort.
Going forward, I intend to pay particular attention to the feedback we receive from small radio 
stations.  For example, last year I visited KZPA, a radio station in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska
(population: 583), eight miles north of the Arctic Circle.  KZPA devotes its extremely limited resources to 
serving the local Alaska Native Gwich’in population.  We should be sensitive to the fact that KZPA and 
many other stations like it just don’t have the bodies and bandwidth to handle every regulatory 
requirement Washington might conjure.  The FCC should do what it can to revitalize such stations, 
particularly struggling stations in the AM band, not add to their difficulties.  I hope the Commission will 
embrace this spirit as we move forward in this proceeding.