Markey complains about FCC data
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet chair Ed Markey (D-MA) has a preview of a GAO report in hand noting a dearth of minority...
Martin front and center?
The center we're thinking about is the one in the center of a dart board commonly called a bullseye. FCC Chairman has an Open...
Another pirate walks the plank
Marckenson Bazile is a member of the budget fleet on FM buccanneers. His operation on 100.9 MHz at Port St. Lucie FL (part of...
Political Portal: 12/10/07-12/14/07
The highlight of the week was the return engagement of the five FCC commissioners on Capitol Hill. They visited the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications...
Kerry, Markey focusing on NFL
John Kerry (D-MA) earlier this year inserted himself in the middle of a dispute over broadcast of Major League Baseball games, and now he's...
Reps say not so fast on XM/Sirius
House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) and committee member Steve Chabot (R-OH) have fired off a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging that...
'Tis the season to take potshots at the Chairman
The Teamsters remain steamed about the pending sale of Tribune Company to an ESOP headed by Sam Zell. They claim that the "employee-owned" implication...
Kevin Martin for the defense
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell addressed his concerns about "an apparent breakdown" of procedure at the FCC with a five-question quiz...
MMTC asks FCC to get it right before moving on diversity
Without a solid definition of the type of companies which would stand to benefit from regulatory measure to increase diversity, MMTC has asked the...
FCC tees up media, cable issues for December meeting
Numerous elements of the 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review and other dockets, scrubbed from the FCC's November Open Meeting, are back on the agenda for...
More Reps recognize value of radio to musicians
The number of members of the House of Representative who have signed on to the "Local Radio Freedom Act," a measure from Gene Green...
Dan Rather, interrupted
The House Judiciary Committee is getting in on the broadcast oversight fun tomorrow. However, its planned Antitrust Panel session on minority media ownership has...
'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...