Another small station pays for late license renewal
The FCC rules are the FCC rules, whether you operate a behemoth broadcast group with outposts from coast to coast, or a small backwater...
Quadrennial review comment deadline set
The FCC’s announcement of its Congressionally-mandated periodic look into media ownership rules and regulations has officially been published in the Federal Register.That opens up...
Julius Genachowski's 3rd way to an open internet on the FCC agenda
Once again, it'll be all broadband all the time at the next FCC Open Meeting, on the calendar for Thursday 6/17/10 at 10:30 AM eastern time. The commissioners
Pennsylvania legislators sign Comcast lobbyist-written letter
The Philadelphia Inquirer has published a report saying that 15 members of the 18-seat Pennsylvania delegation to the House of Representatives signed a letter...
FCC gives broadcast engineers a spectrum forum
Architects of the National Broadband Plan have been salivating over the prospect of repurposing broadcast-occupied spectrum. But to its credit, the FCC is giving...
Gross trumps profit when seeking FCC fine reductions
A station hit with a $7K fine for a late license renewal asked for a reduction based on inability to pay. The owner of...
Markey’s communications access bill up for hearing
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet will be holding a hearing Thursday 6/10/10 to consider Ed Markey’s (D-MA) H.R. 3101, the...
Rockefeller set to consider measure to mute commercials
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is convening an executive session of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during which a number of bills and...
NRB calls on FCC to retain cable must-carry
Cable operators may feel a need to keep the affiliates of national broadcast networks on their channel lineup, but that may not be the...
EMF prevails in 2nd adjacent FM translator dispute
Noncommercial Educational Media Foundation received the FCC go-ahead to put a 10-watt FM translator in New Albany IN, two dial clicks away from WFLP-FM...
Questions remain about Kay Bailey Hutchison’s plans
Nobody would have been surprised if Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) had exited the US Senate late in 2009 – she had said she...
FTC on the prowl for overstated dietary supplement claims
The Federal Trade Commission told the US Senate that if a manufacturer of a dietary supplement is going to make a claim about his...
FCC urges communicators to be ready in advance for hurricanes
As the 2010 hurricane season opens, the FCC is making sure it has the framework for the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) up and...
FTC schedules third workshop on future of journalism
For the third and final time, the Federal Trade Commission will convene a panel of experts from various disciplines to discuss how journalism can...
Legislators getting set to refurbish Communications Act
A quartet of Democrats, the chairs of the two Commerce Committees and the chairs of the two most relevant Commerce subcommittees, have announced plans...