Reformers gear up for media hearing
The FCC long ago announced the next public hearing on media ownership, pegged for Chicago on 9/20/07. The pattern of these meetings has pretty...
Michigan halfway to mid-January primary event
The Republican-controlled Michigan Senate has approved 1/15/08 as the date for some sort of primary event in that state, jumping it a week ahead...
Merger mania food for thought
A district court judge who shot down the FTC's denial of approval to merge organic food producer Wild Oats into rival Whole Foods did...
Wireless auction set for next year
Early next year, that is. The FCC will bang the gavel to kick of bidding for 1,099 licenses for companies angling to get a...
Let's go out to the lobby
Who spent more bending the ears of Washington-types during the first half of 2007, Clear Channel or the National Association of Broadcasters? We are...
Plaudits for proactive preteen programmers
Ed Markey (D-MA) has taken point on Capitol Hill in when it comes to the fight against childhood obesity, and across the mall at...
Consolidation comes to piracy
We suppose it had to happen. Emile Marcel of East Orange NJ has been caught running unlicensed FM operations on not one but two...
Portland license challenge denied
A group of watchdog organizations cited a study of 2004 election coverage in attempting to get a blanket denial of license renewals for television...
Inspection/renewal double whammy
Access.1's WWRL-AM New York probably thought it was out of the woods when it rectified a public file problem and paid an associated fine...
Committee reports to FCC on bilingual EAS
Among the many problems exposed by Hurricane Katrina was a problem getting emergency warnings and post-emergency information to non-English speakers. A conference was held...
Satellite merger opponents take to YouTube
Who says Washington politics can't be fun? The folks at the student-founded Consumer Coalition for Competition in Satellite Radio (C3SR) have taken to YouTube...
Democrats renew call for more minority ad contracts
Making sure that minority advertising businesses get their fair share of government contract work has long been a pet project of John Kerry (D-MA)....
Thompson calls it quits
Fred Thompson hasn't entered the Republican presidential primary sweepstakes yet, but there was a Thompson in the mix. That is no longer the case...
Microsoft wants white space redo
Broadcast television is about a year and a half away from becoming a digital only service. At the same time, the FCC is being...
CNN/YouTube GOP debate rescheduled
Republican candidates were balking at following their Democratic counterparts into a debate format in which CNN asked questions submitted by citizens via YouTube. The...