FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked the Media Bureau...

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asked the Media Bureau to complete its review of the sports blackout rules proceeding and provide recommendations for the full commission by “early fall,” he told Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., in a letter the agency released last week (http://bit.ly/1iO4vKO). The comment period for that proceeding -- about whether to end the agency’s sports blackout rules -- ended in March, Wheeler observed. “I share your desire for a quick resolution to this pending proceeding,” he told the senators. Blumenthal and McCain had asked Wheeler commit to bringing “a final order to a vote within the next 60 days” in their initial letter to Wheeler, dated June 2.