Will FCC Bend on Foreign Ownership?
Hemisphere Media Group is trying to push the boundaries of the FCC’s foreign ownership benchmark.
Pryor-ities: Helping broadcasters
The key question fired to Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) during a session at the NAB State Leadership Conference was this: "Can we count on...
Lautenberg serving his last term in Senate
According to a report in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) will not seek re-election in 2014 – good news for Newark...
The FCC Names A New CIO
There's a new Chief Information Officer at the FCC. He's inbound from the U.S. General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Category Management, in the Office of Information Technology Category.
FM Argues Interference to Keep LPFMs Away
WDJC says 3 nee LPFMs in Birmingham would cause interference to his digital channel.
Pai’s ‘Digital Opportunity Tour’ To Include TV Repack Check
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is presently enjoying a tour that sees him hopscotch across the state of Oklahoma, to see his agency's efforts in action. This includes a first-hand look of how one TV station is moving forward with the post-spectrum auction repack process.
Swingtime means fine time for noncom
Jones College was running Norm Vincent’s “Swingtime’ on its noncommercial WKTZ-FM Jacksonville FL back in 2005. It’s a prerecorded program that Vincent supplied gratis....
McCain takes swipe at Fairness Doctrine; Edwards takes another approach
The House of Representative put a nail in the coffin of the Fairness Doctrine before it could even rise to the level of a...
Watchdog – AT&T deal would harm consumers
Free Press has filed a petition to deny the merger of AT&T and DirecTV
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...
Stations duck fines for failure to renew license
Getting out of paying a fine is usually a good thing, but the circumstance that most often gets that result is one that most...
Radio gets boost from House resolution
An impressively bipartisan House Concurrent Resolution 244 has been introduced into the record by a pair of Texans representing both major parties, Gene Green...
FCC Reform Bills Referred to Full Committee
For the longest time, Greg Walden (R-OR) has been trying to give FCC procedures
FCC calmly announces December agenda
Ever since Julius Genachowski became Chairman, the FCC has spent an enormous amount of time examining broadband issues, and very little time on broadcasting....
The Carlyle Group taps former FCC Chair Genachowski
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has named