Radio veteran Greg Walden chairs GOP transition team
Greg Walden (R-OR) has spent many years looking out for the concerns of broadcasters as one of the few members of the House of...
FCC allows sale of half of LPFM time share
One half of an LPFM time-sharing partnership in Columbus OH decided to sell its portion of the allotment, raising objections from the remaining partner,...
FCC extends deadline to sign up for capital workshop
Interested parties are invited to the FCC for a session entitled Capitalization Strategies Workshop, the intent of which is to explore financing possibilities for...
New Jersey senator signs on for legislated retransmission solution
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) serves with John Kerry (D-MA) on the Senate Commerce Committee, and has agreed to work with Kerry in changing the rules...
Fred Upton: Congress should stay out of Fox/Cablevision
If Republicans capture the majority in the US House of Representatives, one member who holds a senior position on the key Committee on Energy...
Diverse group of legislators concerned about retransmission
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski just made public a stack of correspondence he had engaged in with members of Congress, some of whom wrote individual...
Citadel Broadcasting fined for public file violation
The Federal Communications Commission is holding Citadel Broadcasting’s WIBR-AM & WEMX-FM Baton Rouge, LA liable for failing to maintain its public inspection files. However,...
Multicultural caught with its file downtown
WNGY-AM Babylon NY, serving the Nassau-Suffolk market, had the misfortune to suffer a visit from an FCC agent at a time when licensee Multicultural...
Broadcasters want to extend the clock on EAS CAP
The Society of Broadcast Engineers, in conjunction with a wide coalition of broadcaster organizations, is asking for more time to come into compliance with...
Genachowski sees triple win ahead via TV spectrum auction
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is ready to move ahead with the process of cobbling an order of business for reclaiming portions of the spectrum...
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 –...