Tag: FCC
CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public ...Ohio’s WYSO to boost signal power, move to better facility
WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will move to renovated studios and increase its signal strength from 37,000 watts to 50,000 watts before ...As clock ticks, Native groups ask FCC for more time
Native Public Media and the National Congress of American Indians are warning the FCC that many tribal licensees may be unable to ...Fed role: help ‘nonprofit news operations … gain traction”
The new report to the FCC about the state of the media and the future of American journalism estimates that filling gaps ...Adrift, mute and helpless
Why everyone but public broadcasters is making federal policy for public media The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the ...It’s a plan
Comic recreation of a gripping behind-the-scenes drama playing itself out at the Federal Communications Commission, animated using Xtranormal technology.Indecency’s winding road, 1978-2006
July 3, 1978 FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: The Supreme Court upheld the FCC’s right to ban indecent speech when children could be expected ...Hundt: System needs openness of 4 kinds
Attorney and former FCC chairman Reed Hundt , a co-chair of the PBS-appointed Digital Future Initiative, previewed his thinking in a Current commentary seven ...Required filing: a chance to show your stuff!
Quick — what’s your reaction when someone asks to see your station’s public file? A smile or a wince? And why does ...Dereg struggle seen assisting public TV
There’s hope for public broadcasting in the upwelling of citizen opposition to FCC deregulation of commercial TV, broadcast historian Robert McChesney said ...FCC thumbs-up starts radio’s digital age
The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns ...Will Senate loosen definition of ‘educational’ channels?
Public broadcasters are ramping up efforts to secure support of their position in the Senate after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved ...In fights for noncommercial channels, FCC gives an edge to the locals
Until recently, it seemed that Simon Frech’s squabble with two religious broadcasters over an FM frequency would never end. In 1995, the ...NPR asks FCC to delay, rethink low-power FM
NPR took a different tack March 16 in the ongoing assault on the FCC’s controversial plan to license low-power FM (LPFM) stations. ...FCC rejects petition to alter DTV modulation standard
The argument over the digital TV standard will continue, though the FCC tried to put it away Feb. 4 [2000], unanimously denying ...
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