'Tis the season to CYA
Technically, it's always the season to CYA in Washington, but the looming DTV transition is making some of the natives inside the Beltway very...
NAB weighs in on FCC ownership proposal
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's modest rule change proposals do not go nearly far enough, in the opinion of the National Association of Broadcasters. In...
Google renews push for white space access
Internet search guide Google says it has devices which can operate in the margins between television stations without interfering with licensed spectrum users, and...
Political Portal: 12/3/07-12/7/07
The big event in Washington last week was the visit paid by all five FCC Commissioners to Ed Markey's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the...
Another Hill roadblock for Martin
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin already has pending legislation in the Senate which would slow down his plans to ease restrictions on cross-ownership of print...
More on repurposing Channel 6
Engineer Robert E. Lee has replied to MSTV opposition to a proposal to reallocate spectrum currently used for television Channel 6 and use it...
Stevens wants to speed up fleeting legislation
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens (R-AK) is trying to get an anti-indecency measure passed out of committee over the summer down to...
Tribune challenges FCC waiver grant
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the two other Republicans outvoted two Democratic commissioners, granting Tribune Company cross-ownership waivers of two years extendible to six...
Eight is not enough
Clear Channel EVP/Chief Legal Officer Andrew Levin told the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that the decision to loosen local radio ownership...
Grill session: Questions and answers
Here's a selection of items of interest that came up under Congressional questioning of the five FCC Commissioners.* Martin said that drawing the cross-ownership...
Grill session: Commissioners speak
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R) remains convinced that his plan to eliminate cross-ownership restrictions in the top 20 markets, with no further deregulatory proposals...
Grill session more of a warm-up: Congress speaks
Anybody expecting major fireworks from yesterday's FCC oversight hearing at the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet was in for a disappointment. However,...
MSTV opposes FM-ization of Channel 6
Mullaney Engineering and others have proposed taking advantage of the DTV transition and the repurposing of a swathe of television spectrum to relieve pressure...
Martin moves to the Capitol Hill front burner
Winter is slowly starting to take hold in Washington DC, but for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, it's the heat, not the cold, that is...
Commerce Committee passes through Dorgan/Lott bill
Time is winding down for Congress in 2007, but Dan Inouye (D-HI) has promised to try to get the Byron Dorgan (D-ND)/Trent Lott (R-MS)...