There's a new watchdog in town
The mission of the National Hispanic Media Coalition is to "advance Latino employment and programming equity throughout the entertainment industry and to promote telecommunications...
Localism comments solicited
The FCC's NPRM on enhancing broadcast localism has officially made it into the Federal Register under MB Docket No. 04-233. The official publication date...
NAB commerce in campaign cash covers the bases
In last week's story of National Association of Broadcaster campaign contributions, we noted that among the beneficiaries of the NAB's generosity were prominent members...
Clear Channel hedging its bets?
Among the biggest political donors in the broadcast world for the 2008 election cycle is Clear Channel. Some will be surprised at where the...
Session cancelled
The Senate Commerce Committee has called off today's hearing on the DTV transition, which would have come just 24 hours after a similar session...
Commerce Chairs go straight to the top on DTV
Senate Commerce Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MA) aren't messing around. They would like an interagency task force...
A Martin, a Baker, a testimony-maker (or two)
The Commerce Committees have lined up their DTV witnesses, and the two key government representatives will be doing double duty. The hearing today at...
NAB's purple shading toward blue
The National Association of Broadcasters traditionally hands out cash to members of both political parties -- a key factor isn't necessarily which side of...
Dueling committees take on DTV
Both Commerce Committees have the DTV transition on the agenda this week. The House takes it up on Wednesday and the Senate follows suit...
Chief beef: Ferree weighs in on PSA mandates
Ken Ferree is President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, but he was a key exec at the FCC under Michael Powell as Chief...
Let it snow, let us know or let it go
Yet another license renewal challenge has worked its way through FCC channels. This time, Greenwich Broadcasting Corp.'s WGCH-AM Greenwich CT incited the wrath of...
E&C hosts retail DTV event
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held an event demonstrating a number of digital-to-analog converter boxes to members of Congress and their staffs, in...
Dems renew assault on cross-ownership easement
The official rules are out on the 12/18/07 FCC move opening the top 20 DMAs to broadcast/newspaper cross-owned combinations. Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and...
Bush budget rankles Dingell
The FCC is looking to get 338.9M for fiscal 2009, about 26M more than it received for the current year, and President Bush has...
LPFM app shot down with 3rd adjacency rule
The battle over allowing LPFMs to shoehorn onto the dial by being able to occupy frequencies in the 3rd-adjacent slot to existing full-power stations...