Let it snow, let us know or let it go
Yet another license renewal challenge has worked its way through FCC channels. This time, Greenwich Broadcasting Corp.'s WGCH-AM Greenwich CT incited the wrath of...
E&C hosts retail DTV event
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held an event demonstrating a number of digital-to-analog converter boxes to members of Congress and their staffs, in...
Dems renew assault on cross-ownership easement
The official rules are out on the 12/18/07 FCC move opening the top 20 DMAs to broadcast/newspaper cross-owned combinations. Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and...
Bush budget rankles Dingell
The FCC is looking to get 338.9M for fiscal 2009, about 26M more than it received for the current year, and President Bush has...
LPFM app shot down with 3rd adjacency rule
The battle over allowing LPFMs to shoehorn onto the dial by being able to occupy frequencies in the 3rd-adjacent slot to existing full-power stations...
FCC set to place placement on agenda?
Watchdog Commercial Alert has been trying to get both the FTC and FCC to come up with new rules governing the advertising practice of...
Wicker added to Commerce Committee
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) temporarily filled the vacancy left in the Senate by the retirement of Trent Lott (R-MS) with a member of...
Republicans 28, Democrats 5
No, the Red party didn't score four touchdowns while surrendering a field goal and a safety to the Blues. And this is not the...
FCC Issues Report on Broadcast Localism
The Federal Communications Commission has issued the full text of its Report on Broadcast Localism, combined with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in which it contemplates significant re-regulation in a number of areas.
Adelstein weighs in on DTV
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) contributed his two cents in the wake of reports from NAB and the Consumers Union on the state of...
Legal eagle view of enhanced disclosure
One of the many actions taken at the FCC's exceptional 12/18/07 Open Meeting was the ratification of a new questionnaire which will require television...
Martin applauds NAB, watchdog DTV studies
Both the Consumers Union and the National Association of Broadcasters fired off studies measuring the state of consumer awareness concerning the upcoming DTV transition...
A legal eagle eye view of NYPD Blue case
The topic is broadcast indecency. Attorney Peter Gutmann of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC has taken a look at the FCC's 1.43M fine...
Gimme shelter to go with the flow
H.R. 2102 has been passed by the House of Representatives back in October, and now the NAB wants the Senate to perform the same...
House panel pegs PEG witnesses
The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet has announced the lineup of witnesses for its hearing on "Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Services in...