BREAKING NEWS! FCC Finaly Announces Seattle Ownership Hearing

ROAD TRIP! BE BOLD! TESTIFY!
 
JOINT STATEMENT BY COMMISSIONERS COPPS AND ADELSTEIN ON
SEATTLE MEDIA OWNERSHIP HEARING

A hearing with only five days notice is no nirvana for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. This smells like mean spirit. Clearly, the rush is on to push media consolidation to a quick and ill-considered vote. [...]

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL on MINORITY MEDIA, Friday Nov 2

Big Media is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules again to give conglomerates more control over what Americans read, see, and hear. What most Americans don’t know is that the FCC plans to fast track the rule changes and cut off public comment in December.
 
Who wins and who loses? This week Bill [...]

Statement of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, Localism Hearing, Washington, DC

Thank you all for being here. You came on short notice, some from afar, and had to prepare on the turn of a dime, but your presence attests your dedication and public-spiritedness and we are grateful for that.
You are going to hear a lot of nice words about localism today. About how [...]

FCC Announces Dates for NCE Filing Window

April 9, 2007
FCC Announces Dates for NCE Filing Window
The FCC just announced that between October 12 and 19, 2007 there will be an application filing window for new FM station and major modification requests. This is a very unusual filing window for full-service noncommercial (NCE) stations.
The application window is for frequencies in the NCE FM [...]