Friday, May 15, 2026

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...
U.S. Supreme Court

Researchers make case for SCOTUS cameras

Robert Green and Adam Rosenblatt of research firm Penn Schoen Berland says that the vast majority of Americans favor the use of cameras and...
Democrat and Republican

Political payday for SC-1 broadcasters

An opening in the US House of Representatives for South Carolina’s 1st District has a lot going for it that your average congressional race...

Witnesses set for Senate communications hearing

Not just any communications – rural communications. That’s what the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet will be discussing on Tuesday 4/9/13....
Democrat and Republican

DCCC keying 2014 attack on Paul Ryan

The 2014 election cycle is already in progress. Wisconsin Rep. and recent VP candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) has seen his budget pass the House...
John Rockefeller

Rockefeller sustains the media violence drumbeat

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has made it clear that a probe into the role of television content will be undertaken at...
Jessica Rosenworcel

Commissioner gets boost toward FCC chair

With the departure of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski now a sure thing, the cottage industry that turns out likely replacement rumors has shifted into...
FCC

FCC seats new diversity panel

The Federal Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age has officially been rechartered and its members have been appointed. The purpose...