FCC initiates proceeding on DTV consumer education
At the behest of powerful legislators John Dingell (D-MI) and Ed Markey (D-MA), the FCC is looking into how stakeholders can get out the...
FCC posts ownership studies
Late yesterday the Media Bureau posted on the Internet all 10 studies commissioned for the FCC’s review of its ownership rules. Comments are due...
Stevens investigation progresses
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens (R-AK) is enduring another chapter in the ongoing investigation of his dealings with certain constituents back in...
FCC initiates proceeding on DTV consumer education
At the behest of powerful legislators John Dingell (D-MI) and Ed Markey (D-MA), the FCC is looking into how stakeholders can get out the...
House subcommittee looks into royalties
The NAB calls royalties for airplay a performance tax. Howard Berman's (D-CA) Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property is taking up the...
Use of blocking to tackle indecency
Mark Pryor (D-AR) has an item on Thursday's Senate Commerce Committee executive session which instructs the FCC to begin a rulemaking on blocking technologies....
Republicans, Salem team up in TX campaign event
The Townhall.com Presidential Straw Poll will be held 8/31/07 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. It's a collaboration of the Republican Party of Texas,...
Republicans balking at CNN/YouTube debate
CNN and YouTube recently hosted a ground-breaking South Carolina debate featuring all eight Democratic presidential candidates taking questions directly from potential voters. A similar...
House tries to decriminalize campaign ad infractions
Mike Pence (R-IN) successfully managed to get a provision through the House of Representatives that would prevent the Department of Justice from pursuing criminal...
CommComm set to tee up DTV
The five FCC Commissioners, who just visited the House side of Capitol Hill yesterday, will get a break from the Senate at today's DTV...
Martin shares public’s interest in public interest
The broadcast community received a little bit of attention in yesterday's House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet session with the five FCC commissioners....
Hill hot seats for the Commissioners
As expected, everybody on the guest list for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet will have something in common: an office on the...
FEC gets ready to translate court ruling
The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations and unions have wide discretion in the funding and airing of issue-oriented advertising. "Where the First...
Indecency vote gets unanimous thumbs up
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) received a swift up-or-down vote on S. 1780 yesterday afternoon in the Senate Commerce Committee. It's very narrow thrust is to...
Good Karma dodges a pet peeve
Craig Karmazin, not Mel, found himself on the defensive in a recent FCC proceeding for a most unusual set of chargers. According to Harmony...