Situation even murkier for Stevens
A Senate Republican colleague of Ted Stevens (R-AK) says the votes are there to force him out of the party. But before taking that...
AM gone wild
Problems with 1150 WNDB-AM Daytona Beach FL were causing it to wander up and down the dial of a standard car radio operated by...
Win one for the Gipser?
As the popular Washington sport of nominee-guessing continues, one name keeps rising higher than most of the others when it comes to the successor...
What if you scheduled a grilling…
...and the main entrée failed to show up? The Democrats on a key House subcommittee are prepared to release a report on the management practices of the Kevin Martin FCC, and are concerned
Watchdog itemizes FCC to-do list
With a drastic philosophical change likely to manifest itself as power changes hands in Washington, communications watchdogs who have been howling from the sidelines during the last eight years
Media muzzle in the works?
Both the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Los Angeles Times have OpEd pieces out on the topic of the Fairness Doctrine. Both agree that it should never again see the light of day. The disagreement is
Obama FCC review team in place
And despite the presence of team members with key FCC paragraphs on their resumes, the nod is going to a pair of professors. Susan...
Commerce shakeup looking to be top-down
Two developments last week have made it likely that the changes on the Senate Commerce Committee will start right at the top. The members...
Shaking the Judiciary tree
And the loosened fruit is landing in House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyer’s (D-MI) own lap. According to reports, intellectual property matters, once under...
RTNDA head stepping down
Barbara Cochran, who has become a Washington broadcast institution, is planning to retire as President of the Radio-Television News Directors Association in June 2009....
Stevens loses his lead
The glacier paced count of absentee and provisional ballots in Alaska is dragging on, and as of this writing, a 3K vote lead help...
Experienced Obama transition team
Among 19 individuals helping to pave the way of the incoming Obama administration, four have experience in Washington communications circles. There a former FCC...
Time is of the essence
Did you know that the application to renew a broadcast license is due four months before the license expires? Jason Communications Inc., licensee of WDOW-AM and WHPD-FM in Dowagiac MI
NAB’s pitch to the new prez
As lobbyists ramp up for four years of a whole new administration in Washington, NAB President and CEO David Rehr is among those sending...
FCC waives deadline on waivers
But only for 30 days. Media companies interested in commenting on an extension of their waivers to operate newspaper/broadcast business combinations have an extra month to put together their thoughts