Disclose Act stalled by filibuster
Senate Democrats mustered 57 votes to move the House-passed Disclose Act on the path from bill to law, and could have improved that to 59, but it wasn
Consumer Help Center launched by FCC
The FCC has a new portal on its website designed to provide “one-stop shopping” for consumers interested in information that falls under the FCC’s...
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The Senate Commerce Committee has a hearing teed up that brings up issues of concern to both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal...
First Amendment applies even in Delaware
The FCC has turned down a license renewal challenge to WHYY-TV (PBS) Wilmington, DE (Philadelphia, PA) from the City of Wilmington. The city had
Senators McCain and Lieberman want spectrum for first responders
Remember the “D-Block” portion of the former TV spectrum that the FCC failed to auction because no one would meet the $1.3 billion reserve...
Radio pirate ordered to pay fine
Field agents of the FCC found an unlicensed FM station operating from the home of Dexter Blake in Mt. Vernon, NY in August 2008...
FCC files defense of crossownership relaxation
The General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday filed a brief with the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals defending the FCC’s...
FCC suddenly finds that broadband deployment is lacking
Five times the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reported to Congress that broadband Internet access is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable...
FCC resolves a virtual problem
Now that television stations are using “virtual channels” to identify themselves to consumer receivers, the FCC is making it clear that stations don’t get...
Liberal activists seek dereg rollback
The FCC has been seeking comments on whether, as federal law requires, it needs to further deregulate media ownership. Instead, a group of seven...
MMTC conference lands all five FCC commissioners
The announcement of attendance confirmation from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn means that the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council’s 2010 Access...
Key Rep. Steny Hoyer ready to claim responsibility for broadband
The debate is on as to how far the FCC can go in its effort to enforce the concept of internet network neutrality. In...
West Virginia moving toward special Senate election this year
At first it looked like West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was going to appoint somebody to fill the US Senate seat of the...
FCC recognized for picking up its game
The Office of Management and Budget has released its latest federal employee job satisfaction study, and its finding is that out of the entire...
Democrats moving back 2012 primary schedule
The 2008 presidential calendar was notable for a contest of leapfrogging states, all trying to get to the front of the primary/caucus line where...