FCC unveils new website
The general look and feel of the FCC’s .gov website dates more or less back to the tenure of Chairman Michael Powell, when it...
Court tosses premature net neutrality attack
The FCC had contended that an attempt to take down the FCC’s network neutrality framework approved on a party-line vote last December was early,...
FCC open meeting agenda set for April
The FCC has finalized its plans for its 4/7/11 public meeting. The commissioners will be looking at things like utility polls, right of way...
Organizations combine forces to measure CATV diversity
Two groups, one of which advocates for minorities in the communications field and the other which advocates for women in the cable industry, are...
FCC Chairman defends FY 2012 budget request
Julius Genachowski appeared before the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government to explain the FCC’s FY 2012 budget. In his...
FCC bags another FM pirate
The FCC had a history with Marckenson Bazile of Miami FL when they traced a signal on 103.9 MHz to a residence he was...
Clock starts ticking on FCC retransmission NPRM
The FCCs look at what it can do regarding the retransmission consent process has been published in the Federal Register. That means
Two TV stations nailed for airing unattributed VNRs
A Fox O&O in Minneapolis-St. Paul and an Access.1 NBC affiliate peripherally in the Philadelphia DMA have both been hit with fines by the FCC for running video news releases (VNRs) during news programming without divulging the
Rep. Darrell Issa probing Genachowski/White House connection
Was FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in close consultation with the White House when the Commission was formulating its network neutrality policy? He sure was visiting there frequently
MMTC weighs in on nondiscriminatory advertising
An enthusiastic endorsement to the FCC
FCC underscores enforcement of discriminatory ad dictates
Process is part of the new license renewal form requiring broadcasters to certify that they are not party to advertising contracts that deliberately
Licensing debates is a dicey proposition
A story surfaced at CNN and on Time.com last week to the effect that the Republican National Committee was informally kicking around the idea of sanctioning presidential debates ahead of the 2012 campaign season, and also
Bill to give FCC commissioners tech advisors introduced
Senate Bill 611, "A Bill to provide greater technical resources to FCC Commissioners," is now in the hopper, introduced by two members of the...
FCC unveils April meeting agenda
Are you a broadcaster who has plans made for Thursday, April 7, 2011? If so, plan on doing whatever you were planning. Or at...
Time for the Quadrennial Review quarterly waiver extension
The waiver is for cross-owned broadcast and print media clusters. Companies that operate such clusters have been in limbo for years as the FCC...