Gone but not forgotten?
Try gone but not gone. Henry Waxman (D-CA) may be running the show in the House Energy and Commerce Committee going forward, but Speaker...
Wardrobe malfunction could be going all – the – way
All the way to the Supreme Court, that is, if the FCC gets its way. CBS defeated a $550K FCC fine for Janet Jackson’s...
Waxman defeats Dingell
The seniority system in the House of Representatives took a hit as Henry Waxman (D-CA) claimed the Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
Stevens out, Dingell on the bubble
It’s almost official –Ted Stevens (R-AK) has lost his Senate seat to Mark Begich (D-AK), who has a lead of over 3.7K votes with...
Look for fast action at FCC
When a new administration gear up for the transfer of power in Washington, it is common to speculate on the identities of people likely to be tapped for major cabinet posts. Speculation on the FCC
Situation even murkier for Stevens
A Senate Republican colleague of Ted Stevens (R-AK) says the votes are there to force him out of the party. But before taking that...
AM gone wild
Problems with 1150 WNDB-AM Daytona Beach FL were causing it to wander up and down the dial of a standard car radio operated by...
Win one for the Gipser?
As the popular Washington sport of nominee-guessing continues, one name keeps rising higher than most of the others when it comes to the successor...
What if you scheduled a grilling…
...and the main entrée failed to show up? The Democrats on a key House subcommittee are prepared to release a report on the management practices of the Kevin Martin FCC, and are concerned
Watchdog itemizes FCC to-do list
With a drastic philosophical change likely to manifest itself as power changes hands in Washington, communications watchdogs who have been howling from the sidelines during the last eight years
Media muzzle in the works?
Both the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Los Angeles Times have OpEd pieces out on the topic of the Fairness Doctrine. Both agree that it should never again see the light of day. The disagreement is
Obama FCC review team in place
And despite the presence of team members with key FCC paragraphs on their resumes, the nod is going to a pair of professors. Susan...
Commerce shakeup looking to be top-down
Two developments last week have made it likely that the changes on the Senate Commerce Committee will start right at the top. The members...
Shaking the Judiciary tree
And the loosened fruit is landing in House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyer’s (D-MI) own lap. According to reports, intellectual property matters, once under...
RTNDA head stepping down
Barbara Cochran, who has become a Washington broadcast institution, is planning to retire as President of the Radio-Television News Directors Association in June 2009....