Boehner hopes to ROMP back into the majority
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would much prefer the title Speaker of the House, but at the moment a sizable deficit in sitting...
NAB takes its white space case to the Hill
Would be wireless innovators have run into a little problem: Their headlong assault on television spectrum keeps tripping over its own testing.
Jockeying begins for Obama's seat
If Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected president this November, that will open up a seat in the US Senate for some lucky Illinois Democrat...
Fundraising: House up, Senate down
Candidates for Congress have outdone themselves when it comes to off-year fundraising for the 2008 elections. The totals amount collected during the set-up year...
Broadcasters catch a break
The five FCC commissioners will convene the April Open Meeting next Thursday, 4/10/08, and the Sunshine Notice agenda is remarkably free of issues directly concerning the holders of television or radio licenses.
Senate Commerce Committee tees up DTV
And it will also be teeing up FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Meredith Attwell Baker, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Communications and Information,...
Fox recon shot down on technicality
The indecency case against Fox regarding its 2003 broadcast of "Married by America," and its creative usage of whipped cream, has led the network...
ACLU backs Dorgan measure
Senators have about three extra weeks to consider Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) Resolution of Disapproval, after its original mark-up session was postponed earlier this week....
XM/Sirius in talks with EB
The FCC Enforcement Bureau is said to be in negotiation with wedding partner wannabes XM and Sirius, according to a report in Communications Daily....
Dorgan runs into Catch-22
Yesterday Byron Dorgan (D-ND) was supposed to see which way his colleagues' thumbs would be pointing on his Resolution of Disapproval, which would have...
Enhanced disclosure software on display
The ink is barely dry on NAB's lawsuit attacking the FCC's new enhanced programming disclosure requirements, but already BroadView Software Inc. has a program to unveil at NAB2008 which it says will largely handle the reports.
Lautenberg trying for one more encore
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) actually retired from the Senate once upon a time, but was tapped as a pinch-hitter for a trouble Democrat back in...
Like white on ice?
If it can't be tested successfully, should it nevertheless be unleashed license-free into the wide open market? That's what the NAB is wondering after...
DOJ to get tough on antitrust?
Despite the fact that it just ushered XM/Sirius one step closer to the altar in their 5B attempt to exchange wedding vows, the Department...
An unusual agree to decree arrangement
Generally, when the FCC and a licensee enter into a consent decree, at dispute is a matter that is both serious and often in...