Hutchison weighing early exit from Senate
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) has announced that this will be her final term as a US senator, and she may even exit early, if...
Shield looks like a go in the House
A bill that would provide a federal shield for reporters protecting sources recently cleared a key Senate committee with a 15-2 vote, and now...
Bureaucrats, association heads descend on the Hill
Jonathan Adelstein will be doing the honors for the FCC and John Kneuer will represent the NTIA Wednesday as the Senate Commerce Committee takes...
FCC runs out of patience
We guess this FCC proceeding has been a dragged-out affair. Just looking at the title of it: The 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review of the...
Martin touting efforts to increase minority ownership
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin used a Washington symposium Friday by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to promote his idea that DTV multichannels provide a way...
FEC set to examine implications of Supreme ruling
When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Wisconsin Right to Life (WRtL), it put another major dent in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act...
Rehr opposes LPFM bill
NAB President/CEO David Rehr has fired off a letter to Senate Commerce Committee chair Daniel Inouye (D-HI) opposing S.1675, the Local Community Radio Act...
Food for kids: Markey has a two-for-five week
Ed Markey (D-MA) is Capitol Hill point man in the battle against childhood obesity, and has been recruiting food manufacturers and marketers for the...
DTV-Day on Capitol Hill
Instead of storming the beaches of Normandy, a few lucky regulators will be storming the slopes of Capitol Hill next week. On Thursday, 10/17/07,...
Martin pushes LPFM and DTV leasing
How can the FCC help more small businesses get into the communications field? In an appearance before the House Small Business Committee, FCC Chairman...
Waxman says conservative radio not under scrutiny
American Spectator published a story noting a two-pronged plan among Democrats to exploit the recent remarks of Rush Limbaugh. One is to use his...
Vermont noncom net rebuffs license challenge
Peter D. Moss picked a bone with Vermont Public Radio on 1/18/06, and just over a week later, Peggy Sapphire picked another. Moss was...
FCC kicking off another round of white space tests
Earlier FCC tests of unlicensed devices designed to operate in the open spectrum between operating television stations have not yet yielded satisfactory results. But...
Working on DTV
The FCC is planning a series of workshops which will address what it believes are special needs groups regarding the switch to digital television...
Blackwater focuses attention in Iraq
Most of the time, the debate over US policy in Iraq gets more attention in the US media than do actual events there, but...