E&C books FCC
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has made it official: Thursday is meet the Commissioners day. Presumably, anyway – that is the day...
Newspaper renews call for federal shield
The San Francisco Chronicle notes that President George W. Bush was against a federal shield for reporters, but both Barack Obama and John McCain said on the campaign trail that they were for it
FTC to alert media on stimulus scams
Hard times often make it easier for scam artists to prey on those down on their luck, and we’re undergoing a period of hard...
Genachowski kicks off vlog
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski isn’t kidding when he says the FCC is going to be a true 21st Century agency. In fact, me underscored...
FCC sets agenda for September meeting
It looks like the format for the September Open Meeting at theFCC is going to be all broadband, all the time. At least for...
SCOTUS hears about Hillary
Actually, “Hillary Clinton: The Movie” was a starting point, but yesterday’s arguments at the Supreme Court had much more to do with how corporations may speak and spend their money and how elections
Nostalgia time at subcommittee
Congress is back, and Thursday’s schedule has the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet back in action. The hearing, “Oversight of the...
FCC’s Q1 2009 gripes of wrath
There was a spike in indecency complaints in March 2009, ending a three quarter streak of peace and quiet on that front. The direct...
SCOTUS embarking on campaign finance
A narrow dispute over advertising a documentary about Hillary Clinton has mushroomed into a broad attack on restrictions on corporate and union campaign advertising that have been
Joint session: Boehner wants response time
President Barack Obama’s visit to Congress for a joint session to discuss health care is scheduled for 8:00 PM Eastern. If the networks carrying...
FCC talks emergencies, captions
With the California wildfires in progress, the FCC fired off a memo to all broadcast stations, cable operators, satellite services and other video providers reminding them of their responsibilities
Paper trail travail
MVB Inc.’s WWGC-AM Albertville AL was hit for a $1.5K fine for filing late for its license renewal – generally, the medium tier fine for a station which files after the official deadline but before the license expires
Meet the rookies, the sequel
The two newest FCC commissioners, Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Baker, just had their coming out parties at the 8/27/09 FCC Open Meeting for August....
Late, later and latest
Two AM stations and an FM translator all failed to get their renewal applications in on time. In fact, two of them were so...
FCC issues wildfire guidelines
Stations in Los Angeles that may be in the path of the fires raging there are being granted flexibility by the FCC, both to use temporary facilities and to go silent or dark if necessary. Stations requiring Special