Minority ownership panel expanded
Originally scheduled for the Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy, a hearing called “Trends Affecting Minority Broadcast Ownership” has been kicked upstairs to...
Update: Minority ownership hearing on for Thursday
The full House Judiciary Committee will, indeed, hold a hearing Thursday morning at 10:00 am on "Trends Affecting Minority Broadcast Onwership." The hearing was...
Shoveling metaphoric coal for Kohl
The FCC has been tasked with looking into the telecom business by Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI), who is Chair of the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee...
FCC nears full strength
Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has announced a hearing to go over the credentials of the two remaining FCC nominees. The Democrat is...
Minority ownership on the agenda
This should be a hot one: A House subcommittee plans to look at the state of minority ownership of broadcasting properties. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning. The panel is the
CommComm schedules spectrum markup
The Senate Commerce Committee is ready to order the FCC and NTIA to put on their green shade visors, sharpen their pencils and do...
Station strikes out over baseball ads
A non-profit radio station broadcast a game of a non-profit baseball team, and the two of them put together underwriting announcements hoping to defray costs of the team. Except the announcements veered
Genachowski addresses the troops
Newly installed FCC Chair Julius Genachowski had his first internal chat with his new employees at the FCC, received the endorsement of the Seattle Times, and may get to sleep in before his first FCC Open
Three caught in EEO dragnet
And the fish the FCC found in its web are big ones – Cumulus in Kansas City MO, Cox in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale FL and – perhaps surprisingly -- Entravision in McAllen-Brownsville TX. Fines ranged from
Live from Washington: It’s Monday morning
Or whatever morning it happens to be. That may be Al Franken’s new catch phrase as the NBC Saturday Night Live and Air America...
Radio item pulled from FCC agenda
The long-simmering issue of whether AM stations should be allowed to have FM translators will not be resolved after all at Thursday’s FCC meeting....
Rebate and switch? The Specter of lost donations
Conservative PAC Club for Growth is putting Senator Arlen Specter (R-, no wait, D-PA) into a bit of a spot, and in another way,...
Genachowski speaks!
But don’t get too excited about it – he basically joined the flurry of usual suspects throwing gratitude and congratulations around like a wet...
Conyers faces jail
No, not House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) – but it is his wife, Monica, who is President Pro Tem of the Detroit City Council. She pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit bribery, and is facing a maximum prison term of five years
Coming right up: FCC July Open Meeting
The FCC will likely provide a status report on the DTV transition which was executed with much but not universal success 6/12/09, will look...