Washington Beat

The House Judiciary Committee has stacked its 5/8 hearing list with potential opponents to Comcast's Time Warner Cable acquisition

Here is an amendment of the Commission’s Rules Related to Retransmission Consent

It’s a pretty quick way to put a broadcaster out of business, but the FCC says the case involves a “television broadcast station licensee’s repeated and egregious disregard for several Commission rules, most significant of which was its refusal, on two separate occasions, to comply with its obligation to allow FCC agents to inspect its facilities.”

The Commission on 4/3 took steps to provide more spectrum for general consumer use, carrier-grade small cell deployments, fixed wireless

Three individuals have been indicted for their alleged roles in an approximately $32 million fraud

The FCC denied an appeal by Comcast, which argued that its practice of charging customers separately for a DTA (digital terminal adapter), or converter box that allows subscribers with older TVs to receive digital channels, which the company said would be provided at no charge, is not subject to rate regulation, because it is a service fee.

Here’s a list of the FCC’s latest licenses, construction permits and transfers of control—granted and dismissed—for TV, AM and FM. This list is current as of 4/9/14 and includes all of the revised Hoak Media and Mission TV station deals to Gray Television:

WTRI Holding, Inc. was issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the amount of $5,000 for unauthorized discontinuation of operations of Station WTRI-AM 1520, Brunswick, MD (suburban DC).

Cochise Broadcasting, owner of Omaha AM KOMJ 1490 has been fined $17,000 by the FCC for

Here’s a list of the FCC’s latest licenses, construction permits and transfers of control—granted and dismissed—for TV, AM and FM. This list is current as of 3/24/14:

The Commission notified Boonville Broadcasting’s Adult Hits WEJK-FM Boonville/Evansville, IN of its Apparent Liability for Forfeiture in the amount of $4,000 for failure to conduct a contest substantially as announced, including undue delay in concluding the contest and more. Said Theresa Cavanaugh, Chief, Investigations and Hearings Division Enforcement:

Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise is the GOP standard-bearer in the House for vigorous reform to the nation’s

So far this year, there have been over 1,050 CPs granted for new LPFM stations, but this week 14 previously granted LPFM CP applications were pulled in Southern states for reasons including

On 3/11, The House of Representatives approved H.R. 3675, the FCC Process Reform Act, by

Here’s a new one under the header of “It’s worth a try”: The FCC has rejected North County Broadcasting’s petition for reconsideration of a $4,800 fine for EAS violations at Business Talk KFSD-AM Escondido/San Diego. North County appealed, saying that the fine could not be enforced because it is a small entity and the Commission has never complied with its obligation under the