John Eggerton
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Tech, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Communications Subcommittee will get a chance to grill the FCC commissioners this month.

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Broadcasters will soon get the green flag on their race to an interactive, geo-targeted, video-on-demand future.

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The consolidation of TV newsroom operations has slowed and local news continues to run on a record number of stations.

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Democratic leaders on the principal FCC oversight committee want the Republican chair to schedule an FCC oversight hearing ASAP, saying the commission has been willfully evasive

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The FCC has granted analog-only cable systems a permanent waiver from from the requirement to provide audio description of non-textual emergency info, like maps or radar sweeps.

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Says he wants to make more "intensive" use of midband spectrum

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Says Free Press indefensibly omitted requisite showing of member harm

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Nine more phases to go in post-incentive auction channel switches.

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Current obtains report via FOIA request.

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Will not include national ownership cap or UHF discount.

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Company counters that association is just looking for commercial leverage.

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Site is popular with parents, children and adults looking for how-to help.

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Organizations say the "unnecessary" rule has allowed DBS providers to use it as a loophole through which to drop carriage.

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Focus is on government to find spectrum for burgeoning internet of everything.

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Purchase price was $32.5 million, according to Kalil & Company, which represented Red River.

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Says ITU needs to change allocations table to reflect post-auction home

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The FCC has voted to launch its first 5G spectrum auctions targeting 6,000 licenses in the 28-GHZ and 24-GHz bands

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O'Rielly, speaking to an NAB 2018 audience Tuesday (April 10), said that broadcasters' secret weapon in an increasingly competitive media marketplace was localism.

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Oklahoma Republican tells FCC Chairman Pai no action should be taken that threatens public broadcasters

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NAB, NCTA, ACA, NPR defend their distribution "backbone"
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