FCC picks up the flag on one late-filer, nails two others
We don’t keep track of such things, but we do see FCC actions on a daily basis, and we’d have to say that license...
Digital low power TV comment and reply cycle set
The transition from analog to digital television broadcasting took place in relatively smooth order during the summer of 2009. However, low power stations were...
MMTC applauds update of FCC
While acknowledging that the “designated entity” rules have helped smaller players get into the communications field, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is backing...
Pubcasters score cash for children
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting System famously devote much of their resources to educational programming for children, and they have...
FCC tries again to jump start CableCARD
The FCC says that the CableCARD regime should have opened up a new era of competition and innovation in the set-top box market –...
Consumers group worried about Comcast/NBCU power over internet TV
Consumer Federation of America’s Mark Cooper, recently had an ex parte meeting with two key FCC officials, Chief of Staff Edward P. Lazarus and...
Two more stations fined for late-filed license renewals
KAPL-AM Phoenix OR and KRNL-FM Mount Vernon IA both missed the deadline for getting their license renewal forms in to the FCC. Four months...
Hawaii anti-consolidation activists discouraged by slow FCC
An LMA-enabled television triple-header operating in the Honolulu DMA is about to celebrate its first birthday, according to a report in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser....
Monday is Columbus Day
Monday, October 11th is Columbus Day, a federal holiday. That means that the Federal Communications Commission and other government offices will be closed. However,...
FCC
Next year’s National Conference for Media Reform is on the calendar, and one of the prominent names on the guest list is FCC Commissioner...
FCC meeting for October going ahead as advertised
About the only difference between the official FCC announcement regarding the agenda for the October Open Meeting and the sneak preview is that this...
Closed captioning coming to internet video
Ed Markey (D-MA) may have given up his chairmanship of the House Communications Subcommittee, but that hasn’t diminished his interest in communications legislation. He...
FTC: It
Companies that wish to gain and edge on their competitors and lure customers on the basis of their environmental friendliness may need to exercise...
Anti-Comcast/NBCU group takes its case to the White House
The Coalition for Competition in Media has been battling the proposed merger of NBC Universal into Comcast all summer, and has now fired off a letter