Snow Storms Postpone FCC meetings

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All federal government offices, including the Federal Communications Commission, were closed for four days this week, due to the heavy snows that blanketed Washington D.C. and other East Coast cities.

On Wednesday, the FCC web site was updated to announce postponement of the FCC Agenda Meeting scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 11 until Feb. 18. The fourth meeting of the Advisory Committee for the 2012 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-12) scheduled for Wednesday was postponed, without the FCC specifying a new date, as was the public forum on the creation of an emergency response interoperability forum scheduled for Wednesday.

Thursday's Open Meeting was also postponed until next week.

As of early Thursday morning, the most current FCC Daily Digest available was for Friday, Feb. 5.

Doug Lung
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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.