Free Press using Daily Show appearance to pressure Baker
Josh Silver, speaking for Free Press, was featured in a Jon Stewart bit on the 5/16/11 edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Silver...
Public broadcasters pull in government educational funds
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS sent a shout-out to Congress and the Department of Education for sending cash their way for educational...
Democrats suffer another US Senate retirement
Herb Kohl (D-WI) is ending his career in the US Senate, creating another open seat for 2012. The announcement brings the total number of...
Multiple government agencies teaming for obesity forum
Childhood obesity is seen as an epidemic in Washington and marketing practices used to sell food to children is under the microscope. At the...
Meredith Baker leaving FCC for Comcast
Republican FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker looks like an 8th Floor short-timer – word is out that she plans to exit the Commission soon...
FCC, FEMA go mobile with emergency alerts
The powers in charge to unveil PLAN, otherwise known as the Personal Localized Alerting Network. It is designed to get emergency info out to cell phone users. However, when a cellular network goes down, customers will still be unable to access these 90-character warnings
Not gone, certainly not forgotten: Ex-legislators in the lobby
Washington watchers frequently note the revolving door between positions in the federal government and positions in the companies the federal government regulates, and watchdogs...
TV wasteland chairman meets lay TV to waste chairman?
There are three interesting events on the FCC calendar next week. One is the monthly open meeting. Communications hearing is a reschedule, and will be held Friday 5/13/11 . Friday the 13th interesting day to hold an FCC grilling
Mike Pence announces his 2012 plans
Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), one of the members of Congress who know what it is like to pull an airshift, was the source of...
FCC process hearing back on the schedule
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet had originally planned to grill the FCC on its decision-making process on Tuesday 5/3/11, but...
Absent staff, downed fences costs Mattoon combo
Cowpokes may put a lot of stake in not being fenced in, but the FCC has once again indicated it is not lenient at all when it comes to a broadcast tower
Broadcast viewpoint featured in Brookings event
There are dueling events taking place at 10AM Thursday 5/5/11 in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee is teeing up network neutrality, and think tank...
Commissioners off the Capitol Hill hook for now
It seems to us that real goal here is simply to fire up the charcoal and grill up some commissioner in order to score political points. That
Rep. Dean Heller gets the nod for John Ensign Senate seat
As expected, Dean Heller (R-NV) will have a bit of a head start when the 2012 race for the Senate seat being vacated by...
FCC process hearing on the schedule
Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and members of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet have been promising a review of the way...