McCain backs reporter shield

Conventional wisdom has presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) looking for issues where he can put some political daylight between himself and President...

Committees keep FCC hopping

The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is hosting all five FCC Commissioners today (and preventing their appearance at an NAB breakfast). The...

Muzzle awards handed out

The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has an award you don't necessarily want to win. The 2008 Jefferson Muzzle awards...

GAO cites low minority/women ownership levels

It is no secret that women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in the ranks of broadcast ownership compared to their percentage of the overall...

CEA applauds regulators on DTV

Even though FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's agency has been hitting members of the Consumer Electronics Association with fines and consent decrees, the organization is...

Senate battlegrounds handicapped

The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats...

Senate battlegrounds handicapped

The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats is starting to look like a lost cause.

FCC doesn't cancel out fines

Today's FCC's April Open Meeting didn't include anything of direct interest to broadcasters, but its postponement may have put off news of adverse finding for America's electronics manufacturers and retailers. But no such luck -- the FCC went ahead and levied over 6M worth of penalties anyway.

Television has its place

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is famously against allowing the electronic media to invade the sanctity of his place of business. And he is...

No real surprises at DTV hearing

Senators routinely urged FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and outgoing NTIA head Meredith Atwell Baker to table all other concerns for the duration of the...

Boehner hopes to ROMP back into the majority

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would much prefer the title Speaker of the House, but at the moment a sizable deficit in sitting...

NAB takes its white space case to the Hill

Would be wireless innovators have run into a little problem: Their headlong assault on television spectrum keeps tripping over its own testing.

Jockeying begins for Obama's seat

If Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected president this November, that will open up a seat in the US Senate for some lucky Illinois Democrat...

Fundraising: House up, Senate down

Candidates for Congress have outdone themselves when it comes to off-year fundraising for the 2008 elections. The totals amount collected during the set-up year...

Broadcasters catch a break

The five FCC commissioners will convene the April Open Meeting next Thursday, 4/10/08, and the Sunshine Notice agenda is remarkably free of issues directly concerning the holders of television or radio licenses.