MMTC looks to tweak intact cluster rule
The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council says that the new rules on transferring grandfathered clusters have not had the desired effect of increasing ownership...
MIM: Mum’s the word, if its *#^%
Meanwhile, the decency watchdogs are helping to pump up the volume in this area. Parents Television Council's Tim Winter condemned the vote turning down...
Indecency, violence put on hold, briefly
The attempt by Sam Brownback (R-KS) to attach measures to an FCC funding bill which would restore the FCC's right to punish fleeting expletives...
FEC going to court against citizen campaigner
Stephen Adams has run afoul of the Federal Election Commission. In the two months prior to the 2004 presidential election, he apparently took it...
NAB fights Fairness Doctrine
The House of Representatives has put attempts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine on ice for at least a year, and the Senate is about...
Fox, CBC moving ahead with debate
The 9/23/07 debate among Democratic presidential candidates sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus and scheduled to air on Fox News Channel has been spurned...
Will Congress back Brownback amendments?
Sam Brownback (R-KS) shepherded the new 325K indecency fines through the Senate (in partnership with its original sponsor, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), but since...
Will 700 auction pass the M&M test?
Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, and Kevin Martin (R), Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, often...
Slow time in Washington gets even slower
The summer doldrums are setting in inside the Beltway. Congress is back from its observance of the Fourth of July, but is getting set...
How many Hispanics?
Henry Waxman's (D-CA) Oversight and Government Reform Committee is going on the road. In fact, its going to Clear Channel Communications' home turf -...
Appeals court rejects ACLU challenge to wiretapping
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed an ACLU challenge to the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. The three-judge panel ruled 2 to...
Give us just a little more time
The Joint Task Force on Media and Childhood Obesity has decided to keep its report in the oven throughout the remainder of the summer...
Fairness Doctrine revival still alive?
That's what one industry watchdog says. Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid called the bill just passed in the House and pending before the Senate...
Teamsters try to leverage localism
A major part of Tribune will be owned by an employees under an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) if Sam Zell's plan to take...
Competition for Imus hearing
One of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's subcommittees is already planning a hearing for 10AM on 7/11/07. It will now be subject...