Copps asks NAB to counter vote suppression efforts
Former FCC Commissioner and current Common Cause member Michael Copps fired off a letter to NAB’s Gordon Smith, asking him to marshal the might...
Walden declared a near lock for NRCC job
Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) is particularly qualified for that job, with radio group ownership occupying a prominent place on his resume. But...
FCC alters agenda for October Open Meeting
One of the items scheduled for the 10/17/12 FCC public meeting is gone, and another has been added. But the interest level for broadcasters...
Media diversity issue absent from party platforms
MMTC was able to cite numerous platform planks in party platforms since 1980 that addressed the issue of diversity of media ownership in one...
FCC announces agenda of TV auction tutorial
Learning Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now Program (LEARN) is the program initiated by the FCC to answer preliminary questions potential participating broadcasters may have about...
Eshoo gets into a Pai fight over spectrum auction
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Communications Subcommittee, is countering FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s assertion that guard bands opened up...
October FCC meeting gives broadcast a break
Broadcasters have been an occasional key part of the FCC’s open meetings under the gavel of Chairman Julius Genachowski, and the October 2012 meeting...
Broadcast/print cross-ownership ban may be on the way out
FCC Commissioners appearing at the recently-held NABOB confab believe that the latest quadrennial review of ownership rules should be out before year’s end, and...
FCC vacates program access rules
The FCC has allowed rules forcing owners of regional sports networks to provide them to competitors, but left in their place a requirement to...
Pennsylvania Reps speak up for broadcast television
Members of the Pennsylvania delegation to the US House of Representatives are the latest to weigh in the FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the...
Internet closed captioning rules kicked off
Distributors of certain types of internet video content are now required to supply closed captioning for the benefit of deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens.
The FCC...
More reaction to spectrum auction NPRM
The FCC’s kick-off of the landmark spectrum auction notice of planned rule making had many in Washington talking – and here’s what a few...
FCC incentive auction earns a round of reviews
The incentive auction NPRM drew a handful of comments from various denizens of Washington DC. Here’s what people were saying:
* Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman,...
FCC October agenda released – yawn
As often happens when an Open Meeting is scheduled late in the month, we know what’s in the FCC pipeline for October before they’ve...
House committee assignments in flux for Republicans
Unlike Democrats in the US House of Representatives, the Republicans put term limits on its committee chairs. And it looks like change is coming...