BBC suspends FM broadcasts via Sri Lankan national broadcaster SLBC following "interference".
To fulfill that promise the commission needs to require low-powered stations that interfere with existing broadcasters to eliminate the interference or shut down.
While computer and Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Dell favored the idea, television broadcasters worried about possible interference problems.
Congressional Republicans say their position is based on the interference that broadcasters insist the new stations would cause for the signals of existing stations.
The concept behind C-SPAN, Lamb said, is to present political and public affairs events to viewers with little interference from the broadcaster.
It was left up to the ABC's staff-elected director, Dr Jane Connors, to drop some truth bombs at public hearings for the Senate inquiry into alleged political interference at the broadcaster this week.
A statement issued today says: The BBC, together with a number of other broadcasters, is experiencing deliberate, intermittent interference to its transmissions to audiences in Europe and the Middle East.
In the meantime, one hopes that the Emergency Alert System will remain quiet and let CNN, the Weather Channel and the other regular radio and TV broadcasters do their job without interference.
The BBC Trust and S4C Authority would also agree a dual service licence for the S4C channel, freeing the executive editorial board which runs the broadcaster to operate without direct BBC interference.
Three major international broadcasters operating in the region, the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America, have recently accused the Iranian regime of "deliberate electronic interference" in their broadcasts.
