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...

FCC set to place placement on agenda?

Watchdog Commercial Alert has been trying to get both the FTC and FCC to come up with new rules governing the advertising practice of...

Wicker added to Commerce Committee

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) temporarily filled the vacancy left in the Senate by the retirement of Trent Lott (R-MS) with a member of...

Republicans 28, Democrats 5

No, the Red party didn't score four touchdowns while surrendering a field goal and a safety to the Blues. And this is not the...

FCC Issues Report on Broadcast Localism

The Federal Communications Commission has issued the full text of its Report on Broadcast Localism, combined with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in which it contemplates significant re-regulation in a number of areas.