House panel gets back onto broadband
Rick Boucher isn’t done with his ongoing examination of the National Broadband Plan, and has put yet another hearing on that topic onto the...
LPTV group avoids kid-related fines
Sage Broadcasting was very lucky it could plead poverty. A combination of reporting failures and children’s commercial load overages resulted in the possibility of...
Effectiveness of Cuban broadcasts challenged
A report from staffers at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that neither Radio Marti nor TV Marti are making much of a dent...
FCC agrees to keep Comcast/NBCU details under its hat
The FCC is reviewing the proposed merger of cable/internet giant Comcast and iconic broadcast operating NBVC Universal, as is the DOJ
Watchdog heading for Newseum to look at current issues
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn will be one of the leading guests as communications watchdog Free Press takes on issues facing journalism, the internet and...
FCC sets May Open Meeting agenda
The next sit-down for the five FCC commissioners is on the schedule for Thursday 5/20/10, and Chairman Julius Genachowski is keeping a transparency policy...
NABOB getting set for Spring meeting
The National Association of Black-owned Broadcasters is going to use its 34th Annual Spring Conference to discuss taking part in the US recovery from...
Consent decree struck over underwriting announcements
The FCC and Way-FM Media Group have decided that rather than continue to argue over whether or not the noncommercial licensee of KXWA-FM Loveland...
Noncom documentarian Burns heads for the Hill
Ken Burns has mastered the trick, from time to time, anyway, of keeping millions coming back to public television for days on end to...
FCC unveils agenda on noncommercial’s digital role
The date is 4/30/10, the time is 9AM-5PM, and the workshop session is entitled, “Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era.” It’s...
House subcommittee reschedules broadband hearing
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet had originally planned to tee up a session entitled “The National Broadband Plan: Competitive Availability of...
Virginia public broadcasters survive budget attack
Freshman Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) recently followed in the footsteps of many others in trying to eliminate public funding for public broadcasting, and had...
FCC opens inquiry into competitive video gear
It has not gone unnoticed at the Federal Communications Commission that Americans are getting their video programming from a variety of sources these days,...
Rep. Rick Boucher invites witnesses to broadband hearing
We knew that the influential House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet would be holding a hearing entitled "The National Broadband Plan: Deploying...
Musicians petition FCC in favor of net neutrality
The American Federation of Musicians sent in reply comments pertaining to the FCC’s proceeding on a free and open internet, saying that network neutrality...