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

Document 2025-20437 is a Proposed Rule published by the Federal Communications Commission in the Federal Register on November 20, 2025. In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment on proposed rule changes that would support and accelerate the nation's ongoing market-based broadcast television transition to ATSC 3.0 (or Next Gen TV). The document tentatively concludes that the Commission should eliminate the simulcasting requirement for stations that transition to 3.0, while continuing to permit simulcasting on a voluntary, simplified basis. It also seeks comment on a range of closely related issues and other matters touching on the Next Gen TV transition. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/20/2025-20437/authorizing-permissive-use-of-the-next-generation-broadcast-television-standard.

No. Document 2025-20437 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.