FCC waives through temporary TV twofer
The 583M acquisition of three television stations by Raycom from Lincoln Financial Company filed last November was not without complications. The deal, which included...
Indecency: Fox digs in
Fox Television/News Corporation is refusing to pay a 91K FCC fine levied for the airing of pixilated nudity on a briefly-aired 2003 reality show...
Democratic political committees extending their leads
Conventional wisdom has it that the continued hostilities between to remaining Democratic presidential candidates is doing Republican presumptive nominee John McCain (R-AZ) a world...
SCOTUS puts brakes on anti-Clinton flick
Citizens United must continue its battle to advertise "Hillary: The Movie" in lower courts, say the Supremes. That lets stand a unanimous prior decision...
Don’t forget to move everything
Two station owners in New Mexico have been fined for operating studio-transmitter-links (STL) from unauthorized locations. In both cases, the fines resulted from failing...
FCC takes pity on a poor pirate
Dwayne Simon of Lancaster, CA admits that he was operating an unlicensed radio station out of his home in 2006 and 2007 when FCC...
Groups want probe of auction failure
Was the public/private spectrum auction sabotaged by the first responders who were supposed to benefit from it? The Washington Post reports that nine consumer...
Spectrum auction raises $19.6 billion
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is crowing that the Commission’s auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz band being vacated by analog television raised 19.592...
FCC can't tell WHAT what to play
Leon A. Williams of Philadelphia is the kind of person who appends "Esq." after his name, and you probably know what that means. And...
Dorgan measure seconded in the House
"Consolidation already has brought us to the point where two companies control 70% of market revenue in an average radio market"
Dems want to go from red to blue
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has identified 13 more spending zones, all areas in which they think freshman-wannabe challengers stand a chance of unhorsing a Republican incumbent.
GAO/FCC disagree over complaint processing
The Government Accountability Office says the FCC complaint handling process is busted -- the Commission may very well process 95% of the complaints received,...
FCC March meeting touches on: Guess what?
Did you think it might have something to do with DTV? Then, as Don Rickles might say, you win a cookie! Otherwise, even though...
Commerce Committee teeing up FTC
The FCC isn't the only government agency getting regular grillings on Capitol Hill. The Federal Trade Commission, which occasionally gets into broadcast issues, particularly...
E&C subcommittee digs into the FCC
We have watched Chairman Martin take extraordinary steps to provide transparency over the past year or two. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. Do special interests have too much access to the Commission?