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FCC: Cap noncom FM stick applications?

The FCC says a number of interested parties think there should be a limit to how many CPs one entity tries for in the upcoming ...
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A matter of primary concern

The Republican Party has moved its presidential primary up to 1/19/08, a move which puts it at odds with New Hampshire state law and may ...
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Food for thought to feed Congress

As a direct result of a 7/31/07 FTC action known as "Resolution Directing Use of Compulsory Process to Collect Information for Use in Preparing a ...
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Will USA pull out of 2008 Olympics?

How do you fill a 3,600 hour programming hole? NBC may be looking at just that situation, as well as scrambling to make up associated ...
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Dems take aim at consolidation

Netroots bloggers met with Democratic presidential candidates in Chicago over the weekend at the YearlyKos Convention, and one of the things that came up was ...
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Rite of passage?

The presidential campaign season seems to have expanded to fill all of the time between Election Day completed and Election Day on the horizon. Prospective ...
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Congress sends FCC in search of chips

No, the Senate Commerce Committee is not looking for snack food to take with it on its August recess. Mark Pryor (D-AR) believes that there ...
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House panel moves shield forward

32 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books which protect the right of a reporter to in turn protect the identity ...
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Ownership: Consumers groups counter-attack

That didn't take long. Ten FCC ownership studies had barely seen the light of day before Commissioners Michael Copps (D) and Jonathan Adelstein (D) began ...
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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 Alaska. ...
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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 word ...
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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 topic ...
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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. S. ...
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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, Townhall.com ...
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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 format ...
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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 enforcement ...
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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 hearing, ...
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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. The ...
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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 8th ...
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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 Amendment ...
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