Authorizing Permissive Use of the “Next Generation” Broadcast Television Standard

Document 2025-16990 is a Final Rule published by the Federal Communications Commission in the Federal Register on September 5, 2025, with an effective date of September 5, 2025. In this document, the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released an Order that re-codifies language that was inadvertently eliminated from the Commission's rules relating to information that must be provided by Next Gen TV broadcast stations in "non-expedited" applications for ATSC 3.0 service. This Order does not change any regulatory obligations. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/05/2025-16990/authorizing-permissive-use-of-the-next-generation-broadcast-television-standard.

No. Document 2025-16990 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.