Eshoo drums up support for Sunshine Act
House Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and a posse of bipartisan bicameral collaborators are trying to get the FCC Collaboration Act enacted...
FCC sunshine bill back for another try
Every commissioner and just about every legislator we’ve heard is in favor of legislation that would allow FCC commissioners broader ability to communicate with...
Lautenberg applauds broadcast efforts during Hurricane Sandy
At the FCC’s field hearing on Hurricane Sandy’s effects on local communications systems, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) hailed broadcasters’ heroic efforts to keep citizens...
House panel details communications oversight plans
The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will be continuing to work on the incentive auction of television spectrum and efforts to change the way...
FTC Chair Leibowitz heading for the exit
Jon Leibowitz is exiting the Federal Trade Commission 2/15/13, ending a tour of duty that began as Commissioner September 2004 and as Chairman March...
FCC plans uneventful February Open Meeting
It’s not that there is a lack of broadcast-related activity at the FCC at the moment, it’s that they do not seem to make...
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...