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D.C. Memo: CAR to Carr − Approve Nexstar-TEGNA Merger without Delay
'What’s important to diversity in local news is not how many owners there are, but how those owners run their stations,' said Center for American Rights…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Trump Team 'Fixing the Broadband Mess' Left Behind by Biden, Commerce Secretary Lutnick Says
Commerce chief says he shut down 'rip-off projects run by powerful lobbyists who are very good at getting grants and very bad at delivering results'
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: TV Station Affiliates Turn Up the Heat on FCC over Big Four Bargaining Practices
FCC Asked to Intervene by Station Owners to Save Their Industry from 'Break Glass' Pressures Noted by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Big Four Networks Warn…
 • Ted Hearn
TV Station Affiliates Turn Up the Heat on FCC over Big Four Bargaining Practices
FCC Asked to Intervene by Station Owners to Save Their Industry from 'Break Glass' Pressures Noted by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Big Four Networks Warn…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Starlink Adds 1 Million Subs in Just 47 Days, Rockets Past 9 Million Globally
To what extent is Starlink's rapid growth making Capitol Hill lawmakers think about whether the $8.5 billion Universal Service Fund and the $42.45…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: NATO Members Say Putin’s Military Developing Weapons to Disable Starlink LEOs, AP Reports
Russia's weapon system would flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, damaging, if not destroying, the LEOs and…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Is the FCC an Independent Agency? Al Gore Certainly Didn't Think So
It was Gore who told FCC Chairman Reed Hundt that his failing cable TV regulations needed a makeover.
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Anna ‘Aesop’ Gomez Keeps Telling Her Favorite First Amendment Fable – Fox29
FCC Democrats led by Chair Jessica Rosenworcel pointed a license revocation bazooka at the head of a Fox TV station in Philly during the 2024 campaign…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: FCC Chairman Carr Was Ready for Senate Democrats' Partisan Gong Show Led by Markey
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined the pile on by releasing a communications pricing report filled with partisan half-truths and bogus statistical…
 • Ted Hearn
Special Report: Five Questions for John Puskar, CEO of the American-Made 5G Coalition
CBRS unlocked billions of dollars in private investment and created entirely new use cases across manufacturing, defense, education, logistics, and…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Sen. Warren Targets Nexstar-TEGNA as 'Presumptively Illegal' in Violating FCC's 39% Cap
In their letter to the FCC and Justice Department, Several Capitol Hill Democrats Addressed None of the Issues Driving the Merger, Such as the Need to…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Nexstar Signs Conservative Star Katie Pavlich to Anchor NewsNation Prime Time Show
Pavlich, author and Fox News regular, will host a one-hour program airing weekdays at 10 p.m. ET starting in January. Hire disrupts Newsmax's…
 • Ted Hearn
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