U.S. Congress

Wireless hearing witnesses set

The Senate Communications Subcommittee is looking at the state of the wireless communications universe, and we now know who the witnesses are going to...
No!

LPTV station loses carriage case

WOCB-CD Marion OH, owned by Central Ohio Association of Christian Broadcasters, wants carriage on one Time Warner Cable system affirmed and initiated on another....

FCC’s ungrounded May meeting

Broadcasters will get another month off when the FCC commissioners convene their May open meeting – in fact, all terrestrial communications applications will be...

Panel set to look at the state of wireless

The Senate Communications Subcommittee has scheduled an overview of the wireless industry for next week. The panel is chaired by Mark Pryor (D-AR) with...
Democrat and Republican

Sanford campaign woes will cost Charleston media

The marital problems of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (R) made national news; and now, a lawsuit filed by his former wife over his alleged failure to abide by divorce terms has the Republican national campaign organization dropping any plans to participate in his congressional campaign.
Jay Rockefeller

Video violence bill might tag on to gun bill

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is the sponsor of the Violent Content Research Amendment of 2013, which would initiated a study of how violent content on...
NAB / National Association of Broadcasters

NAB supports foreign broadcast investment increase

The Coalition for Broadcast Investment believes that allowing greater access to foreign capital will make it easier for women and minorities to finance deals...
Julius Genachowski

Genachowski headed for Aspen Institute

In a move that is the opposite of that detailed in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will be taking...
FCC

Benchmarking LPFM and FM translators

There are over 15,000 full power AM and FM radio stations licensed in the US right now – and that number doesn’t figure to...

FCC April meeting lacks broadcast interest

The five FCC commissioners will appear together in public, perhaps for the last time, next week. Two are known to be departing, with the...
Gavel

FM auction set for kick off

FCC Auction 94 will put 112 allotments on the block with 85 qualified entrants ready to engage in the bidding. The call for offers...
U.S. Congress

Possible tough path for FCC chair candidate

Whoever winds up becoming the next chair of the FCC will have to go through the Senate Commerce Committee to get there, and at...
Gavel

FCC causes license move to receiver to fall incomplete

GB Communications was licensee of WHNR-AM Cypress Gardens FL, and fell into default on two separate loans. The license went to a receiver, but...
Greg Walden

Walden affirms support for voluntary incentive auctions

House Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) addressed the auctions in a speech before the NAB, and also suggested that he’s open to discussing...
FCC

Coalition calls on Obama for public-oriented FCC chair

That’s as in protecting the public interest. Written on the stationary of Common Cause, public interest groups want an FCC chair committed to promoting...