MMTC repeats call for multilingual EAS plan
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council remembers that when Hurricane Katrina hit, the area’s only Spanish-language radio station was silenced for over a week,...
New Hampshire Class A TV on the bubble for downgrade
There are advantages to being a Class A television rather than a straight LPTV, but along with the advantages come heightened responsibilities. Another Class...
Two Class A TVs busted to LPTV status
A pair of Vermont Class A television stations has failed to respond to several FCC requests for answers, and the result is the loss...
Media Institute kicks off Free Speech Week
Freedom of speech is a founding principle of the United States and a vital cornerstone to the media. NAB and NCTA are among the...
FTC offers reward for innovator who can stop robocalls
Just about everybody hates robocalls, and the FTC has taken a page out of the Old West, in essence putting up the modern equivalent...
FCC sweeps away pending analog TV cases
When the DTV transition took place in June 2009, there were still a handful of proceedings in the works in which applicants were seeking...
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...