FTC offers restitution to supplement ad victims
Five manufacturers of dietary supplements went too far in their advertising claims, according to the FTC, and are ready to pay consumers who took...
New Senate Commerce lineup – hold the DeMint
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) will continue on as chair of the influential Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. And we now know who will...
More reaction to Clyburn’s new FCC term
President Barack Obama and the US Senate have seen to it that FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will be on the job for at least...
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...