Democratic rep cites Giffords shooting to reinstate Fairness
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) was one of many politicians to criticize the vitriolic tenor of politics today in the wake of the shootings in...
Benefactor of satcaster competition: CATV
Because of the many difficulties incurred wiring a community for cable television service, and the desire of most communities to limit the number of...
Former Senator Byron Dorgan hitting lecture circuit
For a good stretch of the first decade of the new millennium, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) as a leading playing when broadcasting issues splashed...
Key Washington figures headed to MMTC conference
Among the issues being addressed at the Second Annual Broadband and Social Justice Summit are implications of the 2010 midterm elections on “civic engagement...
NAB spends $3.4M in Capitol Hill lobbies
The National Association of Broadcasters had a busy year in Washington, working the corridors of power in the House and the Senate on behalf...
MMTC wants calendar shifted for LPTV
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council says that low power television is caught between a rock and a broadband place – licensees are facing...
FCC rings up two owners for $28K on EEO charges
A four-station radio cluster in the Medford-Ashland OR market owned by Opus Broadcasting Systems Inc. and a six-station radio cluster in Joplin MO owned...
Stations late for a very important date
The FCC is continuing to hand out fines for stations that failed to apply to renew their broadcast license in time. As a reminder,...
Landlord agrees to decree in Brooklyn piracy case
A spectrum bandit was operating in Brooklyn on its spectrum avenue of choice, 99.9 MHz, and was apprehended by an FCC field agent.
FCC announces open meeting schedule for 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, get set to mark your calendars. The FCC conducts most of its important business during its once-a-month open meetings, when the...
The never-ending cross-ownership waiver extended again
Part of the quadrennial review of media ownership rules has been the provision of waivers for media companies that have broadcast and print operations...
Bobby Rush takes a poke at Kevin Martin
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) has a good shot at becoming the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet when...
FCC Commissioners welcome the CALM Act
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have given the FCC another chore to do
CALM Act makes it to the finish line
Signed at the White House: “S. 2847, the 'Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation' or the ‘CALM Act,’ which requires the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe a...
Final FCC 2010 session is on network neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that the agency