MMTC convenes digital confab
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is holding its first ever Broadband and Social Justice Summit in Washington 1/21-22/10 at Howard University’s Blackburn Center...
FCC shoos away 700 MHz squatters
The FCC didn’t so much cancel plans to discuss the use of unlicensed devices in the 700 MHz band from next week’s January Open...
FCC confirms January agenda
The next Open Meeting of the Federal Communications Commission is on the calendar for Wednesday 1/20/10. And as previously reported, it will depart from...
Census gearing up for ad buy
The U.S. Census Bureau is getting ready to drop $133M into an advertising campaign designed to boost participation in the 2010 once-in-a-decade count of...
Fine reduced on poverty clause
R-S Broadcasting Co., licensee of WCWV-FM Summersville WV, was hit with a $10K public file fine, namely for not having proper issues/program lists in...
Key legislators sign off on NBP delay
The FCC will get its extra month to prepare the National Broadband Plan, moving the deadline to 3/17/10, if key legislators make the decision....
FCC invites public to help reboot
Reboot.FCC.gov is up and running – it’s a website that is soliciting public input into redesigning the FCC’s main website (and the Commission in...
Hutchison urges caution before reallocating spectrum
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) wrote an opinion piece in The Hill asking the FCC for a “daring, comprehensive” National...
McCain looking at primary challenge
The primary system in Arizona is closed, and that may be a problem for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). He recently represented his party in...
DOJ pushes FCC on spectrum
If you’re a broadcaster, particularly on the TV side, you probably believe that the FCC does not require any goading when it comes to the search for spectrum to reallocate to new wireless services. So along
FCC January agenda breaks the mold
Usually, the Open Meeting of the FCC in January is nothing more than a look back at the previous year and a glance forward...
SHVERA extended
The new rules governing the relationships between broadcast and satellite television were fast-tracked through Congress all year due to the 1/1/10 sunset on the...
FCC spells relief: 323 delay
All who thought the new enhanced disclosure ownership Form 323 was not ready for primetime, even after the FCC delayed it, can take heart in the fact that it has been delayed indefinitely once again
Griffith promised intramural battle in AL-5
Any notion by Parker Griffith (D-AL – no, make that R-AL) that his still-fresh party switch will pave a clear path to re-election to...
House Democrat switches parties
The Republicans just picked up a seat in the US House of Representatives without one vote being cast – doing it the way the...