Sunday, July 26, 2026

Civil rights leaders want task force

Concerned that further media consolidation will make it even harder to address the lack of minority presence among the nation's broadcast license holders, a...

Domenici joins sanity coalition

Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) has fired off a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R) asking that any plans to allow unlicensed devices to...

More work for Eddie

The Fritts Group, headed by former NAB President Eddie Fritts, is now lobbying the federal government on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of...

It's all in the translation

Numerous commentators have addressed the need for beefed up FCC regulation to assure that disabled and non-English-speaking individuals receive adequate notice of emergency situations...

Adelstein bound for IRTM in Miami

Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) has agreed to meet with Urban radio professionals at the I Rock the Mic Conference and Awards session held in...

Watchdogs appalled by hasty Martin

Watchdog groups are incensed that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin intends to hold its final forum on media ownership in Seattle WA with only a...

House double-teams the FCC

Spurred by Senate anti-consolidation point man Byron Dorgan (D-ND), the Senate Commerce Committee is planning a session of media ownership and localism this Thursday,...

FCC draws heat for fast track forum

Watchdog groups are incensed that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin intends to hold its final forum on media ownership in Seattle WA with only a...

Commerce Committee keeping the heat on

The echoes from the last speaker at the FCC forum on localism in Washington had just barely died away, and already the Senate Commerce...

Dems cry foul as Martin heads to Seattle

The FCC announced late Friday that a hearing on localism would be conducted just one week hence in Seattle, as Chairman Kevin Martin (R)...

Will Supremes weigh in on fleeting expletives?

We don't know if the Supreme Court will agree to hear an FCC appeal of the Second Circuit court ruling in favor of Fox...

Colbert gets 18.75% of the SC vote

The two-party presidential campaign of Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert has been derailed. His plan was to run in one primary state, his native...

Radio gets boost from House resolution

An impressively bipartisan House Concurrent Resolution 244 has been introduced into the record by a pair of Texans representing both major parties, Gene Green...

RTNDA wants FCC off Comcast's case

The FCC has no business levying fines on Comcast news service CN8 for running video news releases on its cable network, says the Radio-Television...

FCC expands franchising guideline

When the FCFC established "rules and guidance" to prohibit local franchise authorities "from unreasonably refusing to award competitive franchises for the provision of cable...