FCC opens door for noncom disaster fundraisers
According to the rules, noncommercial broadcast stations are not supposed to raise money for any reason other than self-funding. However, the FCC has mechanisms...
Broadcasters on the political front
The political action committee of the National Association of Broadcasters has elected its officers for the next year. No doubt you’ll recognize the names.Larry...
FCC tees up radio license renewal schedule
If you read this, and still wind up paying your hard-earned cash into the US Treasury because you didn’t renew your radio station license...
Bill introduced to foster FCC commissioner get-togethers
According to the rules, about the only time more than two FCC commissioners get to see one another in person is at the monthly...
NCTA in the market for leader as McSlarrow exits
NAB’s Gordon Smith is rapidly becoming one of the senior communication industry trade association leaders. MPAA just hired Chris Dodd, and now the National...
Kyle McSlarrow exits NCTA for Comcast
After six years as President & CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), Kyle McSlarrow will join Comcast next month as President,...
FCC hits the Dakotas to post its latest fines
And sure enough, they are for late-filed license renewal applications. Today’s victims are KBJM-AM Lemmon SD, licensed to Media Associates Inc., and KNDC-AM Hettinger...
FCC Chair Julius Genachowski has a chance to move up
The Chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, has been announced as a speaker at the NAB Convention in Las Vegas next month, but the...
House Democrats continue to press Republicans on net neutrality
At first, Energy & Commerce Chair Fred Upton(R-MI) and Communications Subcommittee Chair Greg Walden (R-OR) were just going to go ahead and vote on Walden
Sen. Jim DeMint leads renewed assault on CPB
The Republican Party is looking to cut funds, and one of its favorite targets of late has been public broadcasting. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)...
Net neutrality hearing in the works next week
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) have honored the request of Ranking Member counterparts Henry...
Another US Senator plans to exit after 2012
The announcement of plans to retire from 86-year-old Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI) did not catch anybody inside the Beltway by surprise – if his...
NAB and MSTV looking at an association of Associations
If ever a wedding made sense, it is this one. The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association of Maximum Service Television may very well lead the league in issuing joint documents. That may no longer be
House panel voting to undo FCC net neutrality regimen
Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will lead a vote in his Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet aimed at stripping the force of
NAB alerts lawmakers to another spectrum squatter
NAB President/CEO Gordon Smith has fired off a letter to key legislators in the US Congress, alerting them to more reports that even as the