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Opposition to the NAB's proposed freeze on new FM station allotments is starting to trickle in at the FCC. Last week, two applicants for new FM stations filed objections to [...]

Senators Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) and Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) last Monday Feb. 24) introduced the Film Disclosure Act of 1992, a bill designed to require broadcasters, cable programers and videocassette dealers [...]

Telcos Lying Low as Cable Bills Near WASHINGTON -- Trying to keep its options open, the telephone industry has been dodging invitations to negotiate the terms of its entry into [...]

NAB Agrees To Meet With Telcos Over Programming The National Association of Broadcasters' TV Board agreed last week to open talks with the telephone industry on the role telephone companies [...]

It's Ba-ack: Fairness Doctrine Bill Resurfaces WASHINGTON, D.C.--The fairness doctrine bill is back, big time. Even though President Reagan vetoed such a bill in the 100th Congress and President Bush [...]

FCC LIMITS NEW STATION APPLICATION PAYMENTS At its Dec. 10 open meeting, the FCC voted unanimously to shut down what it sees as the 'gaming' of the comparative new station [...]

Broadcasters believe proposed FCC rules implementing the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 would make them guilty by association or, as the case may be, partnership or corporation, according to comments [...]

Legislation underscoring broadcasters' obligation to charge political candidates no more than their most favored' commercial advertisers, reported out with great promise by the House Energy and Commerce Committee three weeks [...]

NAB says settlement caps will discourage 'quick-buck artists'; FCBA divided over issue; NBMC, in joint filing, says it agrees with caps so long as they do not apply to minorities [...]

'The Supreme Court may soon be facing some of the most momentous First Amendment cases in its history. ' A Supreme Court-First Amendment commentary from Patrick D. Maines, president, The [...]

To mitigate the coming shortage in radio spectrum and strengthen the United States' international competitiveness, the NTIA and the FCC should consider granting broadcasters and other licensees of radio spectrum [...]

The National Association of Broadcasters is battling a Bush administration proposal to raise roughly $1.5 billion in spectrum fees, but it is not alone. Help is on its way from [...]

Last week's Senate Communications Subcommittee hearing on a bill (S. 2904) that would reallocate 200 mhz of spectrum from the government to the private sector may have set the stage [...]

In an open meeting last week, the FCC adopted unanimously its long-awaited report defending enforcement of Congress's 24-hour ban on indecent broadcasts. The report has not been released for general [...]

The FCC has made its case for the statutory 24-hour-a-day ban against indecent programing on radio and television, unanimously adopting last Thursday (July 12) a report that argues the ban [...]

The FCC waived its one-to-a-market rule last week and granted the sale of KXGN-AM-TV Glendive, Mont., from Lewis Moore to Stephen Marks. Marks also owns WBKB-TV Alpena, Mich., giving him [...]

Cable's use of public rights of way will probably influence court to adopt more limited use of First Amendment, he says The attorney who twice convinced the U.S. Court of [...]

It includes 100% parity and tougher penalities for noncompliance; announcement of pending legislation made during conference at which FCC officials hail EEO progress Dissatisfied with current levels of minority and [...]

Measure is essentially same as that vetoed by President in 1987 It came as no surprise, but the suddenness of it helped reinforce the view that Representative John Dingell (D-Mich.), [...]

'...the cable industry is enjoying a free ride at broadcasters' expense, and this cannot continue indefinitely.' Commissioners are divided over just how much of rule they want dropped, saying it [...]

As session winds down, Hill's communications agenda includes children's TV, FCC budget, TVRO bills With about 40 working days left in the final session of the 100th Congress, activity on [...]

The 100th Congress is sticking around this week. Since Oct. 8, lawmakers have been trying to go home, but the session has dragged on in the hope that a compromise [...]