Congress pressing FCC on FM in cell phones
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has been busy lately signing letters to Members of Congress who have written to him and Homeland Security Secretary Janet...
NAB has conventional reason to extend FCC retrans deadline
The FCC has opened up a proceeding called, “Rulemaking to Amend the Commission’s Rules Governing Retransmission Consent,” a matter of extreme interest to both...
FCC resorts to auction to settle CP competitions
The FCC is getting ready to hold Auction #88, a closed proceeding which will include mutually exclusive applicants for a number of FM station...
Broadcasters largely absent from April FCC meeting
The agenda is out for the FCC’s next Open Meeting, on the calendar for 4/21/10, and the six items therein are of little direct...
Act of good faith earns late-renewal fine reduction
KRNW-FM Chillicothe MO, licensed to the Board of Regents, Northwest Missouri State University, tried to piggyback its license renewal on one filed for its...
FCC heading to Seattle for internet forum
“Approaches to Preserving the Open Internet” is the name of a workshop that the FCC is preparing for. It will be held on 4/28/10...
Petition to deny upheld as FCC reels a CP back in
Lee Seraphim (LS) and Mana’o Radio (MOR) were mutually exclusive competitors for an NCE FM CP, with LS aiming for Lahaina HI and MOR...
Senate panel re-tees broadband hearing
The House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet quizzed all five Commissioners on the newly-released National Broadband Plan 3/25/10, but the Senate Commerce...
Senate panel may create job openings at the FCC
There will be five employment opportunities on the FCC’s 8th Floor if a bill passed out of the Senate Commerce Committee continues to move...
Poll finds broadband support is a plus with voters
A new poll out from Zogby indicates that a solid majority of voters believe that a strong government push for speedier internet service would...
FCC comments on filing deadline waivers
New Beginning World Outreach Inc. attempted to acquire a construction permit for a new NCE FM in Wytheville VA, but submitted a defective engineering...
Two noncomms settle with the FCC
Noncommercial licensees are just as subject to fines as commercial ones if they violate FCC rules. So, two noncomm FMs are going to be...
House panel puts broadband on the agenda
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has made it official. It will hold its first hearing on the National Broadband Plan on Thursday, 3/25/10....
Rockefeller plans mark-up to reinforce FCC Commissioners
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has set up a wide-ranging mark-up session that among other things will take up a bill which...
Commissioners discuss television aspects of National Broadband Plan
The FCC unveiled its long-awaited National Broadband Plan, and while television spectrum is definitely being eyed for repurposing, there was no outright call for spectrum from the denizens of the FCC’s 8th Floor. One, in fact expressed sentiments