Key legislators sign off on NBP delay
The FCC will get its extra month to prepare the National Broadband Plan, moving the deadline to 3/17/10, if key legislators make the decision....
FCC invites public to help reboot
Reboot.FCC.gov is up and running – it’s a website that is soliciting public input into redesigning the FCC’s main website (and the Commission in...
Hutchison urges caution before reallocating spectrum
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) wrote an opinion piece in The Hill asking the FCC for a “daring, comprehensive” National...
McCain looking at primary challenge
The primary system in Arizona is closed, and that may be a problem for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). He recently represented his party in...
DOJ pushes FCC on spectrum
If you’re a broadcaster, particularly on the TV side, you probably believe that the FCC does not require any goading when it comes to the search for spectrum to reallocate to new wireless services. So along
FCC January agenda breaks the mold
Usually, the Open Meeting of the FCC in January is nothing more than a look back at the previous year and a glance forward...
SHVERA extended
The new rules governing the relationships between broadcast and satellite television were fast-tracked through Congress all year due to the 1/1/10 sunset on the...
FCC spells relief: 323 delay
All who thought the new enhanced disclosure ownership Form 323 was not ready for primetime, even after the FCC delayed it, can take heart in the fact that it has been delayed indefinitely once again
Griffith promised intramural battle in AL-5
Any notion by Parker Griffith (D-AL – no, make that R-AL) that his still-fresh party switch will pave a clear path to re-election to...
House Democrat switches parties
The Republicans just picked up a seat in the US House of Representatives without one vote being cast – doing it the way the...
FCC snowed out
The weather system that slammed into the Washington DC area and buried it in more than a foot of snow managed to bring much...
CALM Act finds an enthusiastic supporter
RBR-TVBR stories on the CALM Act (here and here ), which will force television commercials to keep the decibels down to the level of the program in which they are embedded, have generated a mild amount
FCC chairman promotes safe childhood surfing
Three members of the Obama administration and the organizations they head have teamed up to produce and promote a booklet called “Net Cetera: Chatting...
Snowe, Warner move to upgrade FCC staffs
New bipartisan Senate legislation being put forward by Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Mark Warner (D-VA) would give FCC commissioners – who tend to be...
FCC on the prowl for spectrum
The FCC reaffirmed during the latest broadband-oriented open meeting that it was hunting for spectrum to be put to use for broadband applications, and that the band currently occupied by broadcast television is