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...
Sen. John Ensign exit opens up opportunities
Scandal-plagued US Senator John Ensign (R-NV) resigned from office on Friday 4/22/11. He had managed to avoid criminal prosecution for his activities but was...
Cherokee Nation topples Monastery in FM CP case
At one point in time there were 17 applicants for an NCE FM CP allocated to Oklahoma. It was awarded to
FCC tees up broadcast-free May meeting agenda
It’s all tentative, ladies and gentlemen, and once again, the FCC topic slate for its Open Meeting on 5/12/11 has nothing – and we...
White House may move on political ad disclosure
Simply put, if a company wants to accept a government contract, it must disclose any donations they make to organizations that run political advertising. What is your view on Obama's move - Right - Wrong - or is it all about getting Re-Elected
FCC set to look at communications earthquake readiness
Recent earthquake disasters in Japan and Haiti have brought disruptions in the earth’s crust into sharp focus, and have prompted the FCC to assess...
Tower ambiguities lead to dismissal, reinstatement of FM CP grant
Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education Inc. and Darton College were two of a group of four applicants hoping to build a new FM...
RBR-TVBR Observation: All quiet on Capitol Hill
There are always issues of interest to broadcasters percolating away on Capitol Hill. Lately, a number of them have been aired out in public, including discussions of the fate of funding for public broadcasting and the intrusion of mobile broadband into television air space.
FCC extends comment period for TV NPRM
ET Docket No. 10-235 is called
Cliff Stearns attacks secretive FCC
The FCC simply cannot win this one. No matter what it does, it gets nailed for lacking transparency. Republicans make that charge when Democrats run the FCC, and Democrats do the same
CEA and CTIA want Channels 31-51
The upper reaches of broadcast television will top out at Channel 30, if the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and The Wireless Association (CTIA) get their way. In a letter to the five FCC commissioners, they propose incentive auctions under
Michael Copps goes to Boston to sound consolidation alarms
Copps believes that consolidated media companies began pillaging their journalism staffs for profit well before the internet..RBR-TVBR observation: We absolutely disagree with one of Copps
Erwin Krasnow to receive Quaal Award
Washington-based communications attorney Erwin G. Krasnow of Garvey Schubert Barer will be receiving the 2011 Ward L. Quaal Pioneer Award at the NAB convention...
House votes to unwind FCC network neutrality rules
Efforts to mount a court challenge to the network neutrality regulations put in place by a party line vote of the FCC late in 2010 were recently rejected as premature. But a challenge may be