FCC working on journalism study
According to a report at CNSNews.com, the FCC’s Michael Copps has initiated a Notice of Inquiry on the state of journalism in America. Actually,...
Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines
The FCC expects to see your license renewal application a full four months before the license expires. You know that, right? If your license...
FCC bases ability to pay on gross, not net
Lancaster Educational Broadcasting Foundation is the licensee on non-commercial WFCO-FM in Lancaster OH. It went over the line from underwriting into commercial speech some...
AFM chides Radio One for ducking hearing
AFM President Thomas F. Lee said, “The American Federation of Musicians … is extremely disappointed by Radio One and its Chair Cathy Hughes’ decision...
Minority broadcast hearing sways to PRA
What was advertised as a House Judiciary Committee hearing on trends affecting minority broadcast ownership devolved at times into a discussion of John Conyers’ (D-MI) Performance Rights Act, which included
Minority ownership panel expanded
Originally scheduled for the Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy, a hearing called “Trends Affecting Minority Broadcast Ownership” has been kicked upstairs to...
Update: Minority ownership hearing on for Thursday
The full House Judiciary Committee will, indeed, hold a hearing Thursday morning at 10:00 am on "Trends Affecting Minority Broadcast Onwership." The hearing was...
Shoveling metaphoric coal for Kohl
The FCC has been tasked with looking into the telecom business by Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), who is Chair of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee...
FCC nears full strength
Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has announced a hearing to go over the credentials of the two remaining FCC nominees. The Democrat is...
Minority ownership on the agenda
This should be a hot one: A House subcommittee plans to look at the state of minority ownership of broadcasting properties. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning. The panel is the
CommComm schedules spectrum markup
The Senate Commerce Committee is ready to order the FCC and NTIA to put on their green shade visors, sharpen their pencils and do...
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...