FTC offers ad claim guidelines to window industry
The Federal Trade Commission is concerned that some companies make “green” claims about products that are unsupported by scientific evidence. It has offered guidelines...
Minor delay in auction filing costs CP winner
Failure to get necessary paperwork in to the FCC after winning an FM CP at auction can cause a licensee to lose the CP....
Watchdog says there is no lack of spectrum
What there is, according to Free Press, is the lack of effective spectrum management. It gave a mixed review of FCC approval of the...
FCC approves conditional Verizon acquisition of cable spectrum
Telecom giant Verizon has been given the FCC go-ahead to acquire spectrum from a consortium of cable companies. Although all five commissioners approved the...
Good news/bad news for CP winner
The bad news for Valleydale Broadcasting LLC is that it is being hit with a fine for failing to get a required document in...
House panel teeing up spectrum again in September
Greg Walden (R-OR) is putting hearing on the schedule of the House Communications Subcommittee that will look into putting federally-held spectrum in the hands...
FCC goes public about another public file fine
If we happened to hold a radio license, and if we also happened to have $10,000, we’d like to hang on to both. That’s...
FTC shuts down mouthguard claims
When Brain-Pad Inc. said that its mouthguards could protect an athlete’s teeth from injury, no eyebrows were raised at the Federal Trade Commission. The...
Genachowski explains thumbs up for Verizon spectrum buy
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that the deal between Verizon and a consortium of cable companies for spectrum posed problems, but said certain commitments...
Romney presidency would put CPB/PBS at risk
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that one of the cuts he’d make to the federal budget if elected would be subsidies for CPB...
Tea Party likely boots Stearns out of Congress
Cliff Stearns (R-FL), a member of the key House Committee on Energy and Commerce and a former party leader in that panel’s even more...
FCC plays Ball with college station on file fine
Ball University’s WWHI-FM Muncie IN had missing issues/program lists from its public file, but managed to get out of the situation with a fine...
FCC sorts out mutually exclusive CP applicants
The applications for an FM station in theHonoluluarea date back to 1996. One company was said to be a mere shell formed to create...
No political plans for NAB’s Gordon Smith
Oregon Republicans may miss Gordon Smith, who carried the Republican banner into the US Senate for two terms before losing a 2008 reelection bid....
CWA continues to pour heat on Verizon spectrum buy
Communications Workers of America believe that the sale of spectrum from a consortium of large cable companies to Verizon and the mutual cooperation agreement...