Since September , Wheeler has been an executive at the Washington, D. Wheeler became a political supporter of Barack Obama at the beginning of his presidential run, serving on his exploratory committee and National Finance Committee. Wheeler also campaigned in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. At the time, Wheeler stated publicly that he did not want an administration job.
Bush, Wheeler served as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for 12 years. He serves and has served on the boards of numerous corporations, especially in the telecom field. Although telecom companies and their lobbies—including both organizations formerly headed by Wheeler—issued statements praising the nominee, some in the public interest community have serious doubts as to his ability to rise above his corporate background.
But he now has the opportunity to prove his critics wrong, clean up the mess left by his predecessor, be the public servant we so badly need at the FCC. Telecom Investor Named to Be F. Office of Government Ethics. Main Menu. Back to Departments Back to Independent Agencies.
Overview: An independent agency of the federal government, the Federal Communications Commission FCC oversees the television, radio and telephone industries in the United States.
What it Does: The Federal Communications Commission FCC is an independent government agency responsible for regulating the radio, television and phone industries. FCC Offices Ten staff offices provide support for the bureaus. They are: Office of Administrative Law Judges conducts hearings ordered by the commission. The hearing function includes acting on interlocutory requests filed in the proceedings, such as petitions to intervene, petitions to enlarge issues and contested discovery requests.
An administrative law judge, appointed under the Administrative Procedure Act, presides at the hearing during which documents and sworn testimony are received in evidence and witnesses are cross-examined.
At the conclusion of the evidentiary phase of a proceeding, the presiding judge writes and issues an Initial Decision, which may be appealed to the commission. Office of Communications Business Opportunities OCBO promotes telecommunications business opportunities for small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses. OCBO works with entrepreneurs, industry, public interest organizations, individuals and others to provide information about FCC policies, increase ownership and employment opportunities, foster a diversity of voices and viewpoints over the airwaves, and encourage participation in FCC proceedings.
Its chief role is to manage the electromagnetic spectrum, specifically frequency allocation and spectrum usage.
OET conducts technical studies of advanced phases of terrestrial and space communications and administers FCC rules regarding radio devices, experimental radio services and industrial, scientific and medical equipment. In addition, the office operates the Equipment Authorization Branch, which is tasked with overseeing equipment authorization for all devices using the electromagnetic energy from 9 kHz to GHz.
OET maintains an electronic database of all certified equipment that can be easily accessed by the public. The general counsel also represents the commission in litigation in federal courts, recommends decisions in adjudicatory matters before the commission, assists the commission in its decision making capacity and performs a variety of legal functions regarding internal and other administrative matters.
The inspector general recommends corrective action where appropriate, referring criminal matters to the Department of Justice for potential prosecution. In addition, OLA is a liaison to other federal agencies as well as state and local governments.
Office of Media Relations disseminates FCC announcements, orders, proceedings and other information per media requests. It works closely with the FCC chairman and is responsible for monitoring the state of the communications industry to identify trends, issues and overall industry health. The office acts as expert consultants to the commission in areas of economic, business and market analysis. It also reviews legal trends and developments not necessarily related to current FCC proceedings, such as intellectual property law, the Internet, and electronic commerce.
Office of Workplace Diversity develops policy to provide a full and fair opportunity for all employees, regardless of non-merit factors such as race, religion, gender, color, age, disability, sexual orientation, or national origin.
The top four contractors are as follows: 1. Con Opponents of net neutrality want a two-tiered system that would allow ISPs, including broadband providers, to charge a fee for faster service. Con Opposing the localism plan are broadcasters and conservatives.
Former Directors: Michael J. Copps January - June Kevin J. See all comments Comments Michael Haynes 1 year ago. This year it, they went down on Xmas day. It stayed down from the 25th until on the 29th. Michael Haynes. Sandra Heath 1 year ago. How does one make a complaint of fraud by an internet provider with regard to billing? In and we had similar outages. These outages have consistently occurred during the busy season for our business es.
We have 4 business lines on this property. Kenneth Malbeck 1 year ago. Ted S. Newby 1 year ago. Robo-calls, annoying beyond anything else. No soliciting signs on our property make it a civil crime to come to our door and try and sell us something we did not ask to be sold in the form of trespassing on private property.
Our phone is our property et you allow these annoying companies to steal our phone numbers to call others in an attempt to get us to buy something we did not ask to purchase. The worst of these is the "extended vehicle warranty" people who claim that it was not their office that called me last week when I asked them to put me on a do not call list, same number calling from, same recorded pitch yet they keep getting away with it.
If you an independent government agency can not put a stop to this or make it a FEDERAL CRIME to continue this practice then my question is what good are you as an agency and why do we spend a single cent of taxes to you. The entertainment industry is no doubt keeping you funded through kickbacks for allowing them air time. By the way I also choose not to subscribe to any sort of pay service for free tv that sponsors foot the bill for to advertise their products anyway.
YES I say your government agency needs to be shut down if you can not eliminate this nuisance. Robert Porras 1 year ago. In other words it's like sticking your head in a microwave oven. Why would this department allow it if it's that dangerous to us? Jean 2 years ago. AT T is running a scam.
Eight months after my brother died they are still trying to collect for TV service. It took months for them to shut off the phone, using every excuse in the book. When they said I had to have his password to give them to shut off service, I told them if they had a direct line to God, call him and ask for Ron's password.
I paid all my brother's bills when he first died and put in a note re stopping all services. The latest travesty is that the phone company has somehow managed to send an electronic debt claim to my credit union and they - without any authorization from me, took out the money. I stopped there this morning and asked if they wanted to be included on the police report when I report this theft.
Federal Communications Commission , but it was upheld on the grounds of frequency scarcity. However, in , during the deregulatory era, the FCC held that scarcity was no longer a consideration, and it formally abolished the doctrine in Indecent or obscene speech has been an important regulatory content issue.
The freedom of expression promised in the First Amendment has been limited by the proliferation of television and radio outlets accessible by young children. During the s and s, fraught with cultural change, obscene speech became an issue on radio and television, culminating in the decision in Federal Communications Commission v.
Indeed, although the FCC has always played a role in the cultural conflicts of its time, it has been an important player in the so-called culture wars since the s. As Congress considered legislation in allowing telephone companies to offer cable broadband services and to limit or eliminate local franchising, the FCC remained in the middle of controversies on Internet neutrality and the nature of public-interest obligations in a deregulated environment.
This article was originally published in Brian Caterino is a writer living in Rochester, New York. He also worked in a public access channel for many years. A protest over the seizure of this public access channel was indirectly the spur for the Supreme Court case Town of Greece v.
Galloway , for which he provided video materials. Among his academic work, he recently published The Decline of Public Access and Neo-Liberal Media Regimes Palgrave Macmillan which deals in part with free speech issues in communications media. Aufderheide, Patricia. Communications Policy and the Public Interest. New York: Guilford Press, Besen, Stanley M. Krattenmaker, A. Richard Metzger, and John R. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Linder, Laura.
Westport, Conn. McChesney, Robert W. Broadcasting, — New York: Oxford University Press, All commissioners, including the chairman, have five-year terms, except when filling an unexpired term. The commission is organized into bureaus and offices , based on function see also Organizational Charts of the FCC. Bureau and office staff members regularly share expertise to cooperatively fulfill responsibilities such as:.
Most FCC rules are adopted by a process known as "notice and comment" rulemaking. Under that process, the FCC gives the public notice that it is considering adopting or modifying rules on a particular subject and seeks the public's comment.
The Commission considers the comments received in developing final rules.
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