Markey/Stearns guest list unveiled
The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is marking the T-minus 252 days and counting point of the DTV transition with a hearing, and...
Senators target Pentagon propaganda
Actually, they aren’t so much targeting it as trying to prevent it, as a companion measure to legislation already moving through the House. Frank...
These boots are made for walking into hearing
Nancy Sinatra, daughter of the legendary Frank Sinatra and a successful recording artist in her own right, will be among the witnesses for the...
House panel set to take up performance royalties
Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) has his Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property set to air out H.R. 4789, the "Performance Rights Act"...
Will no news be good news?
When there is no news, it means nothing bad happens. The flip side of that, of course, is that nothing good happens either, but...
New association wants room on cable
One of the newest kids on the media organization block is the National Association of Independent Networks (NAIN), and it has already taken its...
Making the venue shopping circuit
The court portion of the battle over the loosened FCC cross-ownership rules has taken a major step forward. A multiplicity of lawsuits, attacking the...
Three-Rep NM Senate race down to two
Heather Wilson (R-NM) figured to be leaving the broadcaster’s fave House Committee on Energy and Commerce anyway, but instead of moving to the other...
Supremes getting some summer reading
And some of it may be racy – well, not likely, but it will concern the topic of fleeting indecency. The DOJ is arguing...
CBA makes a drastic recommendation
The Community Broadcasters Association is not at all pleased that a mandatory analog pass-through was not implanted for government-approved digital-to-analog converter boxes, and it...
Mississippi station hit with fine
Michael H. Glass’s WMER-AM Meridian MS provided a case study of the need to follow the terms of your license. Or even to have...
Subcom takes on DTV, FCC meets the public
The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Ed Markey’s (D-MA) panel within the Energy & Commerce Committee, will address the DTV transition as promised...
Ownership diversification comments sought
The FCC’s Report and Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making on opening more opportunities for broadcasts ownership by new entrants, small...
Watchdog trying to prod House disapproval
The Senate has already passed the Resolution of Disapproval which would remove all effect from the FCC’s 12/18/07 relaxation of broadcast/newspaper cross-ownerhip rules. Watchdog...
FCC maintains DTV focus
Are you a consumer who is wondering how to go about connecting a digital-to-analog converter box to the analog TV you own and want...