The gripes of –Roth, revisited
That’s as in ex-FCC Commissioner and free market guru Harold Furchtgott-Roth, who has taken to the pages of the New York Sun to protest...
Markey, Inouye express DTV doubts
A new GAO report indicates that 68% of US television stations are pretty much ready to rock and roll when the DTV deadline hits...
Fossella bows out
Troubled House Committee on Energy and Commerce member Vito Fossella (R-NY) has decided to finish out his current term but will not seek re-election...
Dorgan takes on WSJ in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal, which opined that the FCC’s limited relaxation of cross-ownership rules should be allowed to stand, was acting in opposition to...
MMTC protests main studio manpower initiative
The FCC, in its quest to encourage more local programming from broadcast outlets, is looking at many remedies. Among these is a requirement that...
Cash or carry gets new meaning
Stainless Broadcasting’s Fox KMVU-TV Medford OR was negotiating retransmission with Charter Cable Communications systems serving Mount Shasta CA and Yreka CA when it found...
Dorgan measure sailed through on voice vote
The first time Byron Dorgan (D-ND) took his anti-consolidation FCC-thwarting Resolution of Disapproval to the Senate Floor, it required a roll call. This time,...
Wilmington needs to be a priority
The NAB is pushing the NTIA to make certain that its digital-to-analog converter box coupon program is tightly focused on Wilmington NC before that...
Resolution of Disapproval passes Senate
Late word out of the office of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is that his Resolution of Disapproval, otherwise known as S.J. Res. 28, been...
FCC offers charity to Christian FM
WCVZ-FM West Zanesville OH, licensed to Christian Voice of Central Ohio, Inc., was assessed a $20K NAL by the FCC for going a little...
NAB battles enhanced disclosure
The National Association of Broadcasters says it will be no small thing for broadcasters to keep up with the new programming paperwork the FCC...
Bipartisan Senate group opposes performance tax
Members of the House of Representatives have been trying to throw a barricade before the attempt by the RIAA to collect performance royalties when...
FCC reaffirms it’s not kidding about warning
At this point in the DTV transition, the FCC is not interested in dealing with a wave of consumer complaints about retailers who sold them analog-only equipment that is about to become obsolete.
FCC commissioners in session this week
But just because the May Open Meeting is on the schedule for Wednesday, May 14 at 9:30 AM, there’s no reason to testify, fret...
Another legislator registers localism concerns
Mike McIntyre (D-NC) has fired off a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin concerning the FCC’s look into new regulations designed to foster broadcast...