Friday, July 3, 2026

LPFM/translator proceeding open for comment

The FCC proposal that would set market-based targets for the establishment of new LPFM stations and also clear the deck of some 6,500 FM...

Watchdog wants enhanced ex parte disclosure

The FCC has been working to add transparency to the ex parte process, which is the use of written or face-to-face communication with key Commission personnel

Frigid weather gets radio station out of fence fine

KMBQ-AM Wasilla AK was inspected by an FCC agent, it was discovered that the tower was not protected from public access by adequate fencing,...

FCC seeks comment on regional sports networks

It all goes back to the implosion of cable company Adelphia Communications and the acquisition of parts of it by Time Warner Cable and...

Third Circuit ownership ruling killing off CPs

One of the most perplexing issues facing civil servants in Washington is advancing the goal of diversity in the face of a legal system that refuses

PACs waging the debt ceiling battle on the airwaves

President Barack Obama and a handful of congressional leaders have been the main players in the raging battle over the deficit, taxes and the...

Organizations wants brakes slammed on FCC low power TV order

The National Translator Association thinks it has a firm basis for asking the FCC to stay its new deadlines for LPTVs, Class A TVs and TV translators to find a new channel if necessary

John Dingell asks for speedy FCC action on retransmission

By speedy, we mean that veteran Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) would like to see the FCC

Communications lawyer gets White House nod for FTC

President Barack Obama has named Maureen K. Ohlhausen to serve as a Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission. Ohlhausen is currently an attorney...

Consideration of CALM Act extended

When Congress acted to bring the decibel level of television commercials down to the same level used in programming via passage of the CALM...

FCC firms up LPTV plans

By September 1, 2015, analog television broadcast is to be completely relegated to the past, as the FCC has set a hard deadline for low power television stations and translators to switch to digital. It also

Spectrum drafts put unlicensed white space in jeopardy

It has been all broadcasters could do to apply the brakes to the locomotive force behind the attempt to usurp broadcast spectrum turf to use for

Key Democrats unveil another spectrum draft bill

The search for spectrum space to use for wireless broadband has been keeping Capitol Hill staffers occupied all year, and in the House, another...

El Paso TV settles in UHF band

News-Press & Gazette's KVIA-TV El Paso had been trying to make a go of it on Channel 7 as part of the digital transition,...