Still acting, after all these months
Meredith Atwell-Baker hadn’t even gotten the “acting” out of her title over at NTIA, where she was shepherding the digital-to-analog converter box coupon program...
MMTC asks for corrections to diversity package
The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is generally pleased with FCC efforts to promote minority and female ownership of communications licenses, but believes the...
Analog sales action, with a twist
Two new consent decrees taking aim at the sale of analog only receiving equipment to consumers have interesting and unusual new angles. Conn’s Inc....
Legislators leery of royalties
Perhaps we were a bit premature in our recent comments on the prospects of performance royalties in Congress. If your perspective is limited to...
More than a reign delay for latest Open Meeting
We pun, because profoundly delayed Open Meetings have been a relatively frequent occurrence under the reign of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. But this one...
Chamber goes to bat for broadcasters
“The broadcast industry must not be shackled with onerous rules that would hinder its ability to compete.” Sounds like something the NAB might say, but in fact these are the words of William L. Kovacs
Cox prevails over dual denial attempts
The $60M acquisition of six stations in the Athens GA vicinity by Cox Radio from Paul Stone’s Southern Broadcasting Companies has been granted by...
Adelstein attacks propaganda
Many FCC commissioners adopt a signature issue as their own special concern, and for Jonathan Adelstein (D) that issue has been sponsorship identification and...
Station hung-up with FCC fine
The manager of the Davenport Hotel and Tower, Matt S. Jensen, had a problem with ProActive Communication’s KQQB-FM, serving the Spokane WA market from...
Sometimes what doesn’t happen is what’s interesting
Although he was not on the preprinted guest list, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was a prominent member of the first panel to appear at...
Markey/Stearns guest list unveiled
The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is marking the T-minus 252 days and counting point of the DTV transition with a hearing, and...
Senators target Pentagon propaganda
Actually, they aren’t so much targeting it as trying to prevent it, as a companion measure to legislation already moving through the House. Frank...
These boots are made for walking into hearing
Nancy Sinatra, daughter of the legendary Frank Sinatra and a successful recording artist in her own right, will be among the witnesses for the...
House panel set to take up performance royalties
Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) has his Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property set to air out H.R. 4789, the "Performance Rights Act"...
Will no news be good news?
When there is no news, it means nothing bad happens. The flip side of that, of course, is that nothing good happens either, but...