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...
FCC compares noncoms
The FCC has waded through 28 separate groups of wannabe noncommercial station licensees that had filed mutually exclusive applications for stations. Applicants have had...
FCC’s focus on internet continues
When the FCC convenes its next open meeting later this month, the business at hand will once again be the internet. This time there...
Witnesses sets for Senate SHVERA panel
The Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet is getting into the Reauthorization of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization...
Genachowski chats with musicians
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski addressed the Policy Summit of The Future of Music Coalition yesterday. The organization has long been at odds with broadcasters...
FCC asks to keep the stall on Martin’s dereg
Kevin Martin’s modest attempts to loosen cross-ownership of broadcast and print properties in the top 20 DMAs will be put back on ice, if the current FCC has its way. That’s what it told the Third Circuit
Shield shelved again
The demands of the Senate Finance Committee once again deprived the Senate Judiciary Committee with enough members to do anything about the bill that...
FCC gets around to XM-Sirius info request
Back in the days when the National Association of Broadcasters was expending considerable effort trying to block the merger of XM and Sirius, it...