Expand the Blackout Broadcast Reporting Umbrella, One Ministries Urges

The FCC's proposed requirement for reporting broadcast station blackouts due to failed retransmission consent talks (see 2312210061) should be expanded to include blackouts during pending special relief petitions, One Ministries said Tuesday in docket 23-427. An expansion would raise the visibility of such blackouts, it said. Broadcasters also should be able to request they be listed as falling under broadcast station blackouts when an MVPD "simply refuse[es] to return phone calls and emails" and when a must-carry station doesn't get carriage in part of a market that an MVPD covers.