FCC heading to Seattle for internet forum
“Approaches to Preserving the Open Internet” is the name of a workshop that the FCC is preparing for. It will be held on 4/28/10...
Petition to deny upheld as FCC reels a CP back in
Lee Seraphim (LS) and Mana’o Radio (MOR) were mutually exclusive competitors for an NCE FM CP, with LS aiming for Lahaina HI and MOR...
Senate panel re-tees broadband hearing
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet quizzed all five Commissioners on the newly-released National Broadband Plan 3/25/10, but the Senate Commerce...
Senate panel may create job openings at the FCC
There will be five employment opportunities on the FCC’s 8th Floor if a bill passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee continues to move...
Poll finds broadband support is a plus with voters
A new poll out from Zogby indicates that a solid majority of voters believe that a strong government push for speedier internet service would...
FCC comments on filing deadline waivers
New Beginning World Outreach Inc. attempted to acquire a construction permit for a new NCE FM in Wytheville VA, but submitted a defective engineering...
Two noncomms settle with the FCC
Noncommercial licensees are just as subject to fines as commercial ones if they violate FCC rules. So, two noncomm FMs are going to be...
House panel puts broadband on the agenda
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has made it official. It will hold its first hearing on the National Broadband Plan on Thursday, 3/25/10....
Rockefeller plans mark-up to reinforce FCC Commissioners
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has set up a wide-ranging mark-up session that among other things will take up a bill which...
Commissioners discuss television aspects of National Broadband Plan
The FCC unveiled its long-awaited National Broadband Plan, and while television spectrum is definitely being eyed for repurposing, there was no outright call for spectrum from the denizens of the FCC’s 8th Floor. One, in fact expressed sentiments
Senate Commerce Committee tees up broadband
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) didn’t waste any time getting a National Broadband Plan hearing on the schedule. His Senate Commerce Committee will convene Tuesday 3/23/10...
City pulled over by FCC license renewal cops
Escalante City in Utah is the licensee of FM translator K237AD. And it did not get around to renewing its license until March 1,...
Cablevision donates $25K as part of consent decree
Just to top off a week in which it lost a major court battle over program access in the Court of Appeals for the...
Three nailed for late renewal filings
KYDS-FM Sacramento CA, WTTU-FM Cookeville TN and WKCL-FM Ladson SC were all hit with $1.5K fines by the FCC for the simple fine of...
Broadband is unsurprising topic of FCC meeting
The due date for the FCC’s National Broadband Plan is 3/17/10, a date that is exactly one month later than the original due date....