WVU harnesses white space for broadband
Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and Senate Commerce Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) hailed a new program instituted by West Virginia University that utilizes an...
Political ad agency springs for ratings data
National Media Research, Planning and Placement is a media advisory that works for various Republican campaign and issue organizations, and it has resigned with...
House panel tees up FCC again
The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is convening Thursday 7/11/13 to take up the topic “Improving the FCC Process.” The hearing will basically put...
FTC takes some air out of Aereo exec’s wallet
Barry Diller, who has angered much of the broadcast community with his internet-based Aereo program distribution platform, will be paying a hefty sum to...
Congress, NAB team for PSA campaigns
The NAB's 2013 Congressional PSA Campaign is kicking off and running through the end of the year with participation of 244 members of Congress...
FCC announces July open meeting agenda
Once again, the FCC will host an open meeting with minimal broadcast material on the agenda. Broadcasters figure in the FCC’s latest report on...
FCC wants commentary on online political file
The new rules requiring stations to post documents on political advertising in a national public file database housed by the FCC have had one...
Markey wins in Massachusetts
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) is now Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) as the communications-savvy legislator coasted to victory in a special election to fill the...
Senators team to put cameras in SCOTUS
Noting that the decisions of the Supreme Court affect the lives of Americans, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have introduced legislation...
Incentive auction update at June FCC meeting
There are five items on the agenda being put before the short-handed three-member Federal Communications Commission at the June Open Meeting. None of them...
Can the FCC act on Redskins name change?
A group of prominent communications experts are calling on Washington DC’s non-voting member of the House to push the FCC for action regarding the...
Senators ask FCC to move on sports blackouts
John McCain (R-AZ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) did not tell Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn what they would like to see done vis-à-vis the sports...
Wheeler on the Hill: Statements
Only three of those present had the opportunity to speak before the Senate Commerce Committee dug into FCC Chairman nominee Tom Wheeler. There were...
NCTA Washington confab seen as sign of weakness
Typically the big communications organizations hold their conventions at locations all over the map – NAB can be found in Las Vegas once a...
Obama orders agencies to make spectrum available
In the effort to support the propagation of wireless technologies, including improving access to wireless broadband, President Barack Obama has ordered all spectrum-holding federal...