Obama putting FCC wheels in motion?
A staffer at Wiley Rein & Fielding is neither confirming nor denying a report that attorney and former Democratic FCC Commissioner Henry Rivera will be named by president-elect Barack Obama to head the
GAO report puts DTV front and center
The Government Accountability Office has come up with a list of items which will require the immediate attention of the incoming administration of Barack...
Don’t play around with Election Day
Charges of voter fraud and vote suppression have been zinging around from both parties during the last few elections. It has gotten to the...
Stevens campaign still alive
Despite a conviction on corruption charges, Ted Stevens (R-AK) has a narrow lead in his bid to return to the Senate for a seventh...
Sinclair CEO shrugs off FCC change
David Smith may be a favorite target of left-wing bloggers, but the Sinclair CEO is taking the election of Democrat Barack Obama in stride....
Analysis: Write your own headline here
The odds are nearly 100% that we now have a new president elect, barring a surreally unfortunate rerun of Florida 2000. And regardless of...
Supremes hear fleeting arguments
The case of FCC v. Fox Television Stations was heard at the Supreme Court yesterday, in which the FCC is trying to overturn the loss it suffered at the hands of the Second Circuit. According to the Los Angeles Times
Item dropped from FCC meeting
No, not THAT item, unfortunately. The white space agenda item that so many in the broadcast, sports, theater and religious arena would like to...
Fox, FCC square off at SCOTUS
It’s going to be a busy day tomorrow. The FCC is taking on contentious issues at its November Open Meeting, and the Supreme Court is set to hear
FTC opens web kids’ zone on advertising
The Federal Trade Commission notes that children under the age of 12 spend billions of dollars every year, and would like to help them...
FCC phone business may impact Tuesday meeting
The controversy over white space devices has commanded a ton of attention in the broadcast community, but another agenda plank at next week’s FCC...
FCC still aiming at cable
The Consumers Union has been putting out a red alert about plans from a number of cable operators to get in some rate increases in advance of the DTV transition, and using tier shifting
White spaces on the agenda
The call is coming from all seemingly quarters to apply the brakes in the consideration of allowing unlicensed devices into the white spaces between television stations. But the matter is still
FCC brushes off Birach protest
Potomac Radio has earned FCC permission to execute a major upgrade of its WAGE-AM Leesburg VA, going from 5 kw to 50 kw during...
A little more on Stevens
Among the many bizarre outcomes made possible by the conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) is the strong possibility that as a convicted felon...