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Yet another license renewal challenge has worked its way through FCC channels. This time, Greenwich Broadcasting Corp.'s WGCH-AM Greenwich CT incited the wrath of several ...
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Ken Ferree is President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, but he was a key exec at the FCC under Michael Powell as Chief of ...E&C hosts retail DTV event
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held an event demonstrating a number of digital-to-analog converter boxes to members of Congress and their staffs, in hopes ...Dems renew assault on cross-ownership easement
The official rules are out on the 12/18/07 FCC move opening the top 20 DMAs to broadcast/newspaper cross-owned combinations. Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan ...Bush budget rankles Dingell
The FCC is looking to get 338.9M for fiscal 2009, about 26M more than it received for the current year, and President Bush has plugged ...LPFM app shot down with 3rd adjacency rule
The battle over allowing LPFMs to shoehorn onto the dial by being able to occupy frequencies in the 3rd-adjacent slot to existing full-power stations has ...FCC set to place placement on agenda?
Watchdog Commercial Alert has been trying to get both the FTC and FCC to come up with new rules governing the advertising practice of product ...Wicker added to Commerce Committee
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) temporarily filled the vacancy left in the Senate by the retirement of Trent Lott (R-MS) with a member of the ...Republicans 28, Democrats 5
No, the Red party didn't score four touchdowns while surrendering a field goal and a safety to the Blues. And this is not the score ...FCC Issues Report on Broadcast Localism
Adelstein weighs in on DTV
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) contributed his two cents in the wake of reports from NAB and the Consumers Union on the state of public ...Legal eagle view of enhanced disclosure
One of the many actions taken at the FCC's exceptional 12/18/07 Open Meeting was the ratification of a new questionnaire which will require television operators ...Martin applauds NAB, watchdog DTV studies
Both the Consumers Union and the National Association of Broadcasters fired off studies measuring the state of consumer awareness concerning the upcoming DTV transition (see ...A legal eagle eye view of NYPD Blue case
Gimme shelter to go with the flow
H.R. 2102 has been passed by the House of Representatives back in October, and now the NAB wants the Senate to perform the same service ...
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mark walker
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07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
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05 May, 2008 07:11:27
As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
Jack Messmer
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04 May, 2008 10:25:01
Thanks for your comment.
Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
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Tim Keating
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02 May, 2008 07:44:28
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...
Charlie Ferguson
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02 May, 2008 05:40:09
As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...