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)...
Adelstein named for another term
The White House has decided to put Jonathan Adelstein's name back before the Senate for another go-around at the FCC. A former staffer of...
Commissioners will have company on Capitol Hill
As expected, all five FCC Commissioners have an invite to the oversight hearing pegged for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet this Wednesday...
Will FCC put placement in its place?
Advertisers are increasingly trying to weave their products into the sets and storylines of broadcast entertainment, to combat ad skipping via channel surfing and...
Washington week in review
Were you stranded on a tropical island last week? Lucky dog -- we should be so lucky. But no, we were here staying on...
Markey planning to bring back net neutrality bill
A Republican Congress kept Ed Markey (D-MA) and colleagues in the Senate from making headway in making the concept of digital network neutrality a...
Religious group lauds cable brakes
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has the cable industry in his cross-hairs, with items such as imposing a national subscriber cap, limiting the amount of...
FCC adopts new reporting requirements for TV
Broadcast television stations will have to begin posting their public file on their website (or possibly on a state broadcasters association site), using a...
How does Zell spell relief? M-A-R-T-I-N
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he will ask for a vote this Friday which would grant waivers to Tribune to keep its cross-owned properties...
FCC opens the gates for LPFM
The November Open Meeting of the FCC was a landmark for proponents of community-based LPFM. The Commission adopted rules to immediately boost the service...