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
Fair Elections Now Act gets a Senate hearing
A bill billed as an antidote to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling is going to get air time in a subcommittee of the...
FCC Chair lays out TV moving plans for legislators
A group of US Representatives fired off a letter to FCC Chairman pressing for details as to how he plans to clear television stations to make way
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...