Markey announces bid for Kerry’s Senate seat
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is likely headed for the State Department as Secretary of State, and Scott Brown (R-MA) is leaving the Senate at...
Translator slammed by FCC for violations
Juan Alberto Ayala’s K262BP in Conner CA has had a rough time getting started, and to top it off did a very poor job...
Kerry nomination undoes communications panel leadership
The Senate Subcommittee on Communications will be undergoing a complete makeover at the front of the table. First Ranking Member Jim DeMint (R-SC) retired...
Changing of the guard at FTC
The person in charge of protecting consumers at the FTC, David Vladeck, is on his way back to the world of academia. Among his...
Replacement for Sen. Jim DeMint named
Upon word of the resignation from the Senate of Jim DeMint (R-SC), freshman US Rep. Jim Scott said, “Looking forward, Governor Haley will now...
Democrats adjust Senate Commerce membership
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) (pictured) will continue to wield the gavel as Chair of the influential Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the...
NJ senator drags WWOR-TV into ownership proceeding
Sen. Frank Lautenberg says when it comes to television, his state is the poster child for lack of localism – with no DMA to...
Flow of congressional objections to dereg to FCC continues
44 members of the House of Representatives have joined with the chairs of three caucuses – the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus...
Republicans issue memo on incentive auction hearing
The House Subcommittee on Communications will be hosting all five FCC commissioners Wednesday 12/12/12 to see how things are cooking in the television incentive...
Key Republican subcommittee members named
If your station is in the district served by one of the members serving on the House Communications Subcommittee with Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR),...
FCC releases final December agenda
The five FCC commissioners will consider five items during the course of their final open meeting of 2012, but for broadcasters, it will be...
Copps: FCC about to strike out on dereg
Former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps believes that the reported plan of the FCC to relax cross-ownership rules before fixing the problem with license ownership...
Clyburn says new ownership regs on hold until 2013
The Senate Commerce Committee considered the renomination of FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and during the course of questioning, Clyburn confirmed that the FCC’s ownership...
Further senatorial objections to any ownership dereg
Nine members of the United States Senate have collaborated on a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski objecting to easing cross-ownership restrictions, particularly given...
Reps, Commissioners weigh in on LPFM, FM translators
Two US representatives and all five FCC commissioners spoke up on the FCC’s Open Meeting consideration of LPFM and FM translators as directed by...