The department says Nauert will fill the slot that had been vacant since the start of the Trump administration. Nauert, who has 15 years of experience in TV journalism and started in the industry with ABC News, was most recently an anchor on the Fox and Friends morning show.
Democratic senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand expressed concern to the Secretary of State that the FCC may have to reduce coverage areas of stations along the New York-Canadian border as a result of spectrum repacking, “thereby depriving American citizens of access to the signals of their favorite stations.” The senators want the State Department to assign responsibility for conducting the coordination with Canada and “get the process under way without delay.”
