The National Hispanic Media Coalition, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization, sent a petition to the Federal Communications Commission alleging that hate speech is widespread on cable news networks, Broadcasting & Cable reports. CNN’s Lou Dobbs and Fox’s Bill O’Reilly were…
The FCC has hired IBM to handle the call center for the digital-television conversion, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The FCC made the announcement late Friday about the up-to-$12 million call center contract, which is aimed at fielding up to 2…
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin circulated an item for vote late Friday, his last day in his current job, that would have reversed an earlier Media Bureau decision and okayed a truck-stop TV service to share the spectrum used by television…
Democrats in the FCC have voiced their concerns about the DTV switch to Congress and are in support of an analog-shutoff delay, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Among the problems listed by Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps in a letter to…
The FCC is reviewing Sunday night’s telecast of the Golden Globe Awards on NBC after receiving various complaints, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to FCC spokeswoman Edie Herman, the FCC has received 18 complaints about the telecast, particularly after…
New House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., has not yet endorsed any of the proposed solutions for the problems facing next month’s DTV switch, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Many of the solutions proposed are related to alleviating…
Four public safety organizations want a guarantee that any delay of the Feb. 17 digital television transition won’t postpone their access to spectrum now taken by analog TV stations, Multichannel News reports. The concerned groups are the Association of Public-Safety…
The FCC has announced a new TV White Spaces Fellowship and Training Initiative that will invite technology experts to work with the commission on exploring the ways wireless technology can take advantage of the new space freed up by the…
The list of people waiting for DTV converter box coupons has continued to grow and it seems unlikely that those waiting for vouchers will get them unless the government intervenes, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The National Telecommunications & Information Administration…
The National Association of Broadcasters’ president David Rehr sent a letter to Congress and the FCC outlining some suggestions that can be taken to help get DTV converter-box coupons to more consumers, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Among Rehr’s suggestions are…