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DOJ to get tough on antitrust?
Despite the fact that it just ushered XM/Sirius one step closer to the altar in their 5B attempt to exchange wedding vows, the Department of ...
Full story An unusual agree to decree arrangement
Generally, when the FCC and a licensee enter into a consent decree, at dispute is a matter that is both serious and often in a ...NAB has a new suit of disclose
If the FCC will not have the force of law to strip such a programmer of its license, what's the point of wasting everybody's time, and the taxpayers' money, collecting a meaningless mountain of data?...Dorgan disapproval resolution gets a vote
The Senate Commerce Committee has included "S.J. Res. 28, A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast ...Majoras confirms FTC exit
Federal Trade Commission Chair Deborah Platt Majoras has confirmed that her previously announced exit will take place as planned, effective 3/30/08. In making that announcement, ...Minority-owned broadcaster nailed on EEO
Entravision Holdings' Brownsville-McAllen TX radio group, which includes KFRQ-FM Harlingen, KNVO-FM Port Isabel, KVLY-FM Edinburg and KKPS-FM Brownsville, has been hit with an admonishment for ...AAI claims DOJ softened antitrust standards
The American Antitrust Institute is "alarmed" that the Department of Justice lowered its standards to allow the merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite ...At FCC, there is no strenuous objection
Google keeps angling for white space
Internet firms are still trying to get permission to operate unlicensed devices in the spectrum cracks between broadcast television stations, and the NAB is still ...FCC waives through temporary TV twofer
The 583M acquisition of three television stations by Raycom from Lincoln Financial Company filed last November was not without complications. The deal, which included WBTV-TV ...Indecency: Fox digs in
Fox Television/News Corporation is refusing to pay a 91K FCC fine levied for the airing of pixilated nudity on a briefly-aired 2003 reality show called ...SCOTUS puts brakes on anti-Clinton flick
Citizens United must continue its battle to advertise "Hillary: The Movie" in lower courts, say the Supremes. That lets stand a unanimous prior decision that ...Democratic political committees extending their leads
Conventional wisdom has it that the continued hostilities between to remaining Democratic presidential candidates is doing Republican presumptive nominee John McCain (R-AZ) a world of ...Don’t forget to move everything
Two station owners in New Mexico have been fined for operating studio-transmitter-links (STL) from unauthorized locations. In both cases, the fines resulted from failing to ...FCC takes pity on a poor pirate
Dwayne Simon of Lancaster, CA admits that he was operating an unlicensed radio station out of his home in 2006 and 2007 when FCC field ...
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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 ...