NAB fights rear guard action on ownership reports
The National Association of Broadcasters failed to get favorable FCC action on the new ownership reports designed to provide information for study on minority...
FCC taking pity on shoestring low power
Go to the bank and withdraw $7K. In one dollar bills. Put it in a big pile where your entire staff, particularly management, even...
Subcommittee on Communications tees up video competition
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is wearing the communications industry out lately. Next week the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet under...
FCC agenda: All internet, all the time again
The FCC October Open Meeting is on the schedule for Thursday, 10/22/09, kicking off at 10PM. And once again, with a major plan on...
Shield becoming the bridesmaid bill
It seems that no matter what is on the agenda of the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is deemed more important than the reporters shield,...
FCC to unveil new comment filer
The Electronic Comment Filing System is about to graduate to version 2.0, and the FCC will unwrap its new version and display it to...
SHVERA back on the schedule again
The Satellite Home Viewer Reauthorization Act is one of those bills that requires a going-over by more than one committee in each house of Congress. Then you can add in consideration by relevant
A mild case of piracy
When John L. White’s KOLJ-AM Quanah TX lost a tower to a storm, it correctly filed for an STA and go silent while it...
Baldwin PEGs new bill on House agenda
US Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) wants to make sure that public access remains a part of most MVPD lineups, even as the way in...
Senate panel will have say on PRA
As expected, the schedule-challenged Senate Judiciary Committee will take up the Performance Rights Act – and make a fifth attempt to deal with the...
Not so grand way to spend ten grand
$10K – the going rate for a public file violation as assessed by the FCC Enforcement Bureau. And the latest dragnet pulled in four...
Another Senate Judiciary rainout
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) had two items of interest on his agenda during today’s Senate Judiciary business meeting, and he finally had a quorum. But...
SCOTUS takes up cruel animal video
A 1999 law banning videos depicting cruelty to animals and struck down at the appellate level made it all the way to the Supreme...
LPFM and TV loudness bills sail through House subcommittee
Little opposition was voiced Thursday as the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet sent on to the full Energy
Dueling mark-ups on the Hill
There’s a little something for everybody on tap in Congress today. The Senate Judiciary will take up the reporters shield and the Performance Rights...