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Watchdog expresses misgivings about Wheeler nomination
Free Press would like an FCC chairman who puts the public first and foremost and industry stakeholders second, and does not believe that’s what...
Agriculture interests go to bat for LPTV
A group of eight agricultural organizations have fired off letters to the FCC and both congressional commerce committees calling for the preservation of what...
Another FCC indecency story to debunk
The nonsense continues: Yet another report says that the FCC is getting ready to clear the way for...
A child’s garden of TV rules violations
The requirements placed on broadcast television licensees to serve the needs of local children are tripping up some stations – and since most of...
Stakeholders prod FCC for “down from 51” plan
It should tell you something that the industries that are expected to sell and buy spectrum when the incentive auctions take place agree on...
Just-sold Class A slammed for rule violation
The FCC isn’t saying that WJPW-CD Weirton WV didn’t have its Children’s Television Programming Reports in good order. But for 21 consecutive quarters, it...
Clyburn addresses the troops
The FCC’s Mignon Clyburn era figures to be brief, but that said it will be of unknown duration. The Acting Chair told the FCC...
Wheeler spinning media stocks
FCC chair nominee Tom Wheeler has a strong background in communications, and now he has a strong communications stock portfolio. But he has promised...
High FCC hurdle for tailor-made market analyses
An attempt to block a non-Arbitron market multi-station deal using an analysis that ignores the contour overlap methodology used by the FCC for analyzing...
Where, O Where Did the Quad Review Go?
For those of you wondering about the status on the 2010 Quadrennial Review...
FCC opposes court intervention in fee dispute
A number of entities and individuals seeking refunds of filing fees tied to CP auctions have requested intervention by the Court of Appeals of...
McDowell announces post-FCC plans
It turns out that both of the departing FCC officials – Julius Genachowski and Robert McDowell – are being institutionalized. Genachowski is...
FCC announces capital event
One of the hurdles preventing many small businesses from breaking into the broadcasting business is obtaining financing, and to help alleviate that problem the...
Rockefeller orders study of local TV combos
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) wants to learn about the use of JSAs and SSAs by local television companies, and has asked the Government...
A brief tutorial on managing an LMA
One of the dangers faced by a broadcast station licensee when turning over any of its operations to a second party is having that...
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