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D.C. Memo: Call Him Crypto Chris? Newsmax CEO Ruddy to Invest $5 Million in Bitcoin and Trump Coin

Cable News Leader Plowing into an Asset Category That Warren Buffett Has Called 'Rat Poison Squared.'

23 hrs ago •

D.C. Memo: Sen. Ed Markey, Invincible at the Polls Since 1976, Has to Reckon with a New Foe – Ageism

Boston Herald Conservative Columnist Joe Battenfeld Accused Markey's Primary Opponent of Naked 'Age Discrimination.'

Oct 16 •

D.C. Memo: Sen. Blackburn Calls Cell Phone Records Scandal an 'Egregious Invasion of Privacy’ by AT&T, T-Mobile & Verizon

Senate Republican Wants to Know Why Carriers Rolled Over for Biden's Justice Department

Oct 15 •

D.C. Memo: Iran to Impose Death Penalty if Caught Using Starlink to Spy

Draft law also makes it illegal to own or use Elon Musk's low Earth orbit satellite Internet service

Oct 14 •

D.C. Memo: Sen. Markey Can't Recall His Own Effort to Revoke Sinclair's TV Licenses

Veteran Massachusetts Democrat called out on his attacks on the First Amendment in 2018 by freshman Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio.

Oct 10 •

D.C. Memo: Sen. Kennedy Wants Answers from Phone Companies on Handing Over Senate GOP Calls Records to Biden DOJ

Louisiana Republican shocked the telecom firms rolled over and failed to fight the privacy invasion of eight Senate Republicans: 'Maybe they should have…

Oct 9 •

D.C. Memo: FCC’s Carr to TV Stations: You Decide When to Pull the Plug on ATSC 1.0

But the agency leader left a lot of jump balls and industry brawls in a draft NPRM released yesterday

Oct 8 •

D.C. Memo: FCC's Carr Ready to Move Ahead on NextGen TV, Details to Follow

NAB in February submitted a plan to wrap up ATSC 3.0 by early 2030 that faced resistance from the Consumer Technology Association and MVPDs like DIRECTV

Oct 7

D.C. Memo: Cedar Falls Utilities Shutting Down 'Dying' Cable TV Next October

President Obama, in a 2015 visit to CFU, vowed to let local governments provide competitive communications services, especially broadband.

Oct 6 •

D.C. Memo: NBC, Google Reach YouTube TV Deal but Statement Says Nothing about Local TV Stations

Deal arrived one day after NAB slammed the ‘unchecked dominance of Big Tech’

Oct 3 •

D.C. Memo: FBA’s Bolton Says LEO Subs Use AI Less than Fiber Subs

Fiber leader wants $20 billion ‘leftover’ from BEAD to ‘build AI critical fiber infrastructure’

Oct 2 •

D.C. Memo: Showdown at Homework Gap – Carr, Trusty End Democrats' Raid on the $8.6 Billion Universal Service Fund

GOP-Led FCC cuts off E-Rate support for Wi-Fi Hotspots and Wi-Fi on School Buses

Oct 1 •

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