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The racial stereotypes operating in US society and the Supreme Court's affirmative action jurisprudence regarding FCC licensing are discussed. Aggrieved parties could be precluded from obtaining a remedy if courts continue allowing racial stereotypes to become more entrenched.

Although the FCC and courts have concluded that licensees have certain property interests in their licenses, they do not acquire any ownership interests even when, via a spectrum auction, they pay for their licenses. What narrow property interests licensees maintain are limited, and the FCC has broad power to modify existing licenses if doing so is in the public interest. License owners have sought to limit or defeat otherwise lawful FCC actions to alter their licenses by asserting a reliance interest on prior agency action or policy. Licensees may find comfort in the fact that some courts have acknowledged these claims, and have determined that the FCC, at a minimum, must treat licensees equitably. It is proposed that, even in the absence of traditional property rights, such claims be available to facilitate careful judicial review of FCC action.

Byline: Daisy Whitney CBS's television stations will begin providing local news clips to Yahoo this week in a precedent-setting partnership that gives the local broadcasters a bigger berth on the [...]

Pathfire has installed a Digital Media Gateway Server Connect for Programming, DMG Automation Connect, and redundant DMG Servers at 12 of Liberty's broadcast stations. The purchase will allow for the [...]

Cordillera Communications, the owner of 11 television stations throughout the United States, has selected Harris automation solutions for a centralization project in Montana, California and Colorado. To increase operational efficiency [...]

ClearChannel stations WAWS and WTEV in Jacksonville FL, have chosen Video Communications' flagship STARS II+, as their key business operating system for sales, traffic and accounting. STARS II+ provides WAWS [...]

Noddy-mania is set to break out in the autumn as five media companies co-ordinate their efforts for the character's first digitally-animated series. The multimedia marketing campaign will be worth more [...]

An obvious place to launch Canada's first all-Christian television station would have been a major urban market like Vancouver. In 1995, however, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) selected [...]

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees will jump to their third local broadcast home in the past five years with George Steinbrenner's YES Network signing WCBS-TV to a three-year [...]

NEW YORK -- ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington will lose its access to about 240,000 Cox Cable customers in northern Virginia if it fails to reach an agreement on carriage [...]

Asks court to force FCC action on license Pacts worth $1.5 bil WASHINGTON -- Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked a federal court here to order the FCC to act on [...]

A New York public broadcaster is one step closer to selling the weaker of its two Buffalo stations. Federal judges have upheld an FCC ruling allowing the organization to switch [...]

An FCC judge last week ordered the operator of WTVE (TV) Reading, Pa., to give up its license. The owner, Reading Broadcasting, pledged to appeal the decision. Reading's case was [...]

German media giant Kirch Group and pubcasters ARD and ZDF struck a record DM 250 million ($119 million) deal March 6 for broadcast rights to the 2002 World Cup soccer [...]

NEW YORK -- WestPoint Stevens Inc. will walk among the lions with its latest licensing agreement. Sirius Thinking Ltd., WGBH Boston and Stevens have entered into an agreement for the [...]

NEW YORK Paxson Communications, which is continually in the hunt to beef up news and sales on its relatively weak UHF TV stations, has engineered joint sales agreements with three […]

Paxson Communications, owner of the family-friendly Pax TV network, on Oct. 11 signed a joint sales agreement with three New York Times Co. stations. The deal calls for NYT Co.'s [...]

Courtroom Television Network last week forged unusual programming alliances with three broadcast outlets, including ABC News and the flagship NBC- and CBS-owned TV stations in New York. In the first [...]

A new television station that likely will offer more local sports programming is expected to be on the air in the Portland area early next year. Acme Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: [...]

Four powerful senators last week raised the specter of license revocations as a way to force television broadcasters to stop airing gratuitous sex and violence. In a bipartisan request to [...]

Pax TV says it has hooked up with a second non-owned NBC affiliate in a local-programming and joint sales venture. The arrangement covers two Granite Broadcasting stations, including NBC affiliate [...]

UPN Chief Operating Officer Adam Ware told affiliates last week to spend more on local advertising and promotion, do less in the way of network program preemptions and consult the [...]

It will accept applications for channel changes and other major alterations to Class A low-power TV stations from July 31 through Aug.4. Applications for construction permits and major changes to [...]

After one month off the lineup, Fox affiliate WVBT-TV is back on Cox Cable in Hampton Roads, Va. and is again reaching 410,000 cable homes, according to officials. But WVBT, [...]

Existing full-power TV stations planning to boost their digital signal strength beyond initially allotted coverage areas must inform regulators by Dec.31. The notification is required because the FCC needs by [...]

Electronic video booths let broadcasters create cheap, popular shows Ordinary citizens who are ticked off about traffic lights or distraught over tobacco suits, or who think the governor made a [...]

MLB: on-air clips not for Web usage streaming replays Major League Baseball is attempting a cutoff play to stop TV stations from carrying game highlights in newscasts streamed online--but some [...]

VANCOUVER The already crowded six-station TV scene in Vancouver may be squeezed again, with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission calling for applications for yet another conventional station. Six major [...]

Currently, the FCC grants temporary licenses to low-power TV stations, making it difficult for owners to secure financing. Low-power broadcasters would have to air 18 hours of programming per day [...]

* WITH A FIRST SHOT AT PRODUCING THE PREseason games of the newly renamed Tennessee Titans pro-football franchise this fall, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN-TV hopes to boost its inventory by [...]

King World Prods. has sold upcoming syndicated talker 'Rachael Ray' to all top 25 markets and 46 of the top 50 broadcast stations for its fall 2006 launch. Markets for [...]

At press time, the FCC had not changed its plans to push ahead with auctions of TV channels 52-59 and 60-69 in June, despite increasing pressure from the Bush Administration [...]

The government is urging broadcasters to get off ch. 52-59, but TV could remain a key service on that spectrum. Two-way TV is among the new services that will be [...]

CANNES -- Buena Vista International Television has sold its new-season series 'Alias' and 'Scrubs' as well as the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced reality TV show 'The Amazing Race' to U.K. digital channel [...]

The FCC's broadcast license application process is under review. The Commission is considering ways to reduce the amount of paperwork, filing requirements, and to generally streamline the entire process by eliminating unnecessary rules and mandating electronic filing. Changes in rules concerning unbuilt stations, construction permit extensions, and related issues are also being considered.