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...
First ruling of a hamstrung FEC
Staff at the Federal Election Commission has issued an advisory opinion based on requests from SpeechNow.org and FreeCause Inc. The SpeechNow question asked for...
One good hearing deserves another
The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is going to chew up the DTV Transition topic 2/13/08, almost a full year before analog...
Lost in the translation
It seems like the frequency of license renewal challenges is picking up. The novelty of some them certainly is, like the informal objection filed...
Kaiser finds non-profits want more PSA time
The average amount of time allocated to public service announcements on video distribution entities is 17 seconds per hour, according to a new Kaiser...