Station strikes out over baseball ads
A non-profit radio station broadcast a game of a non-profit baseball team, and the two of them put together underwriting announcements hoping to defray costs of the team. Except the announcements veered
Genachowski addresses the troops
Newly installed FCC Chair Julius Genachowski had his first internal chat with his new employees at the FCC, received the endorsement of the Seattle Times, and may get to sleep in before his first FCC Open
Three caught in EEO dragnet
And the fish the FCC found in its web are big ones – Cumulus in Kansas City MO, Cox in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale FL and – perhaps surprisingly -- Entravision in McAllen-Brownsville TX. Fines ranged from
Live from Washington: It’s Monday morning
Or whatever morning it happens to be. That may be Al Franken’s new catch phrase as the NBC Saturday Night Live and Air America...
Radio item pulled from FCC agenda
The long-simmering issue of whether AM stations should be allowed to have FM translators will not be resolved after all at Thursday’s FCC meeting....
Rebate and switch? The Specter of lost donations
Conservative PAC Club for Growth is putting Senator Arlen Specter (R-, no wait, D-PA) into a bit of a spot, and in another way,...
Genachowski speaks!
But don’t get too excited about it – he basically joined the flurry of usual suspects throwing gratitude and congratulations around like a wet...
Conyers faces jail
No, not House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) – but it is his wife, Monica, who is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. She pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bribery, and is facing a maximum prison term of five years
Coming right up: FCC July Open Meeting
The FCC will likely provide a status report on the DTV transition which was executed with much but not universal success 6/12/09, will look...
Revise and consent
The FCC has put a number of bodies of regulation on the table under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, for the purpose of determining if...
NAB, legislators collaborate
NAB's 2009 Congressional Families PSA Program is under way – the latest edition of a program that stretches back to 1985. The NAB partners...
House panel set to markup satellite bill
The House Energy and Commerce Committee will make the final touches to the Satellite Home Viewer Extension And Reauthorization Act Of 2004, better known...
FCC pulls license on felony conviction
Terry Keith Hammond was convicted of felony theft back in 2004. Among the penalties incurred for that infraction is the determination by the FCC that he is unfit to remain licensee of KBKH-FM
Licensee tries to wriggle out of fine
Urban Radio III’s KVTO-AM, serving the San Francisco market from Berkeley CA, was hit with a public file fine, dating back to a 2005...
FCC nominees cleared by committee
The fate of prospective FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and prospective returning Commissioner Robert McDowell is now in the hands of the full Senate, after...