FCC’s focus on internet continues
When the FCC convenes its next open meeting later this month, the business at hand will once again be the internet. This time there...
Witnesses sets for Senate SHVERA panel
The Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet is getting into the Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization...
Genachowski chats with musicians
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed the Policy Summit of The Future of Music Coalition yesterday. The organization has long been at odds with broadcasters...
FCC asks to keep the stall on Martin’s dereg
Kevin Martin’s modest attempts to loosen cross-ownership of broadcast and print properties in the top 20 DMAs will be put back on ice, if the current FCC has its way. That’s what it told the Third Circuit
Shield shelved again
The demands of the Senate Finance Committee once again deprived the Senate Judiciary Committee with enough members to do anything about the bill that...
FCC gets around to XM-Sirius info request
Back in the days when the National Association of Broadcasters was expending considerable effort trying to block the merger of XM and Sirius, it...
FTC convening journalism workshop
The Federal Trade Commission is accepting comments until 11/6/09 which it will incorporate into its planning for a wide-ranging look at the plight of...
Dorgan back to work on net neutrality
Byron Dorgan (D-ND) previously teamed up with Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to put forth legislation enshrining the concept of network neutrality for internet service providers...
Court’s Emily decision ties up FEC
The Federal Election Commission is trying to figure out the real-world ramifications of the DC Circuit’s decision allowing political action committees to spend at...
Genachowski admits FCC’s PPM role is limited
The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) was the first broadcast group to get an official visit from new FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (D). So, of course he
Leahy puts reporters shield in different form
If you can't do it right the first time, or second then try, try, try again. And that is what Patrick Leahy ios doing...
Five states sue for bigger House
People in Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota and Utah think their presence in the US House of Representatives is inadequate, and have persuaded the...
Judiciary moves SHVURA, delays shield
The debate over the massive health care package in the Senate Finance Committee managed to rob the Senate Judiciary Committee of the presence of...
FCC lays out schedule
You can mark your calendar, if you’re so inclined and like to keep track of what the five FCC Commissioners are up to. There...
NUDs/NHDs on McDowell’s radar
FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said that an oblique FCC approach was necessary as the agency works with the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters...