FCC grants more time for auction comments
The NPRM on incentive auctions of television spectrum was released 10/2/12 and carried a comment deadline of 12/21/12. NAB and CTIA asked for more...
IRFA hearing testimony summarized
Six witnesses expressed their views of the Internet Radio Fairness Act before the House Judiciary Subcomittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet, with...
Auctions, receivers on Subcommittee agenda
Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden has put hearings on the calendar to discuss the upcoming incentive auctions of spectrum in the television space and...
Mignon Clyburn up for reupping
Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn has been nominated to a second term on the Commission, and her Senate confirmation hearing has now been put...
FCC announces December agenda
We haven’t even had the November FCC Open Meeting yet and the FCC has released the planks that will be part of the December...
ACA presses FCC on collusory retransmission negotiation
The American Cable Association members of the FCC’s Media Bureau and an advisor to Commissioner Robert McDowell seeking to limit the ability of stations...
House panel tees up receiver hearing
The usual approach to solving the upcoming spectrum crunch is to either find frequencies that are lying fallow or free up frequencies that are...
Scammers use FTC to harvest bank account numbers
The Federal Trade Commission is warning citizens to ignore robocalls telling them they may be in for a redress check, then sending them to...
Watchdogs assail FCC on diversity
Free Press and the National Hispanic Media Coalition say that a recent FCC release on the level of minority and female broadcast ownership is...
FCC ownership proceeding on circulation
The quadrennial review did not make the cut for the November 30 FCC Open Meeting, but it is now being circulated among the commissioners...
Walden gets NRCC, stays at Communications
The new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee is Greg Walden (R-OR), who has been considered a shoo-in candidate for some time now....
Another Class A TV demoted
A Class A television station in Burlington VT is the latest to be busted to mere LPTV status, and like many before it, the...
FCC rakes in treasure from apprehended Florida pirates
Florida is one of America’s hotbeds of pirated FM radio spectrum, and now four members of the buccaneer contingent, representing three unauthorized stations, have...
Genachowski could be eyeing FCC exit sign
The election is over, and the current administration will be around for another four years. But while that means there will not be a...
NAB joins suit against FCC on TV viewability
Agape Church, London Broadcasting, Una Vez Mas and the NAB have challenged the FCC’s revision of the DTV transition rule requiring MVPDs to make...