Thune gets top GOP spot on Commerce Committee
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is continuing on as Chairman of the influential Senate Commerce Committee, and the Republicans have finally gotten around to naming his...
Lautenberg gets oversight of FCC budget
The Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, part of the Appropriations Committee, is going under the gavel of Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). It...
FCC confirms January Open Meeting agenda
The order of business at the 1/31/13 FCC Open Meeting will be as advertised, or in other words, of little or no interest to...
Station hit for semi-operational EAS system
The Emergency Alert System at Centro Colegial Cristiano’s WVID-FM in Anasco PR, as long as there was somebody there to personally make it happen....
Watchdog detailed top issues for 2013
Free Press has been an energetic participant in the debate over media policy, regulation and legislation for years – and it recently made it...
Cell service a casualty of inauguration crowd
A very large group of people were gathered in one place in Washington DC 1/21/13 for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Many of...
FCC incentive auction website open for business
If you would like to LEARN more about the incentive auction process, if you are a stakeholder in general and an interested broadcaster in...
McDowell calls for FCC action on diversity
Robert McDowell is the senior Republican FCC Commissioner, and he told a gathering sponsored by MMTC that the FCC should be doing everything it...
Congressional veterans chair telecom task force
The Minority Media Telecommunications Council and its associates and collaborators have decided to form a task force to work all the levers of power...
House Democrats name Communications panelists
The Democratic side of the House Subcommittee on Communications has been named, a task the Republican side completed over a month earlier. Although Ranking...
Leahy set to address Judiciary 2013 agenda
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he will be speaking at Georgetown University Wednesday, 1/16/13 to lay out...
Rockefeller heading for the sidelines
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, but his tenure at the gavel now has a deadline – he...
Media is part of the conversation on guns, violence
Vice President Joe Biden is leading the White House effort on gun control and related matters in the wake of the shootings at Sandy...
FCC schedules Hurricane Sandy field hearings
The FCC will be going on the road to discuss the resiliency of America’s communications infrastructure when challenged by a major natural catastrophe such...
House Communications panel will be set soon
We know that Greg Walden (R-OR) will remain at the top of the House Subcommittee on Communications, but nothing is official yet and there...