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
One station, two pirates, two upward-adjusted fines
Two FM radio operators who were working their trade on 99.7 MHz in the Boston market without a license were collared by the FCC....
NPR applauds bill to tweak noncom streaming audio rules
Noncommercial radio stations streaming online programming are required to limit the number of times they play material from a single artist during a three-hour...
Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg headed to Hill hearing
The House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law is making quite a name for itself in the waning days of...
Rep. Bart Stupak pressing FCC for D-Block auction
As a former police officer, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) is one of the most active Members of Congress when it comes to the issue of communications interoperability among emergency responders. In his final months before retiring from the House, Stupak
FCC waves through another cross-ownership waiver period
A quartet of media companies long ago made the common-sense suggestion that broadcast/newspaper pairings held together by the imperfect glue of a temporary waiver...