McAdams On

The spectrum incentive auction notice hit the broadcast industry like a nap in church.

One after another junior senator took to the podium and fulminated with all due indignity about flag-burning...

Members of Congress—particularly GOP members—have decided spectrum licensees don’t need no stinkin’ guard bands. And they ought to know, because they’re all RF engineers. No, they are not.

If Congress is endowed with a singular gift, it is the ability to write legislation with just enough ambiguity to keep it tangled up in the court until the members retire.

Low-power television stations are the Hobbits of broadcast spectrum, quietly going about their daily business while darkly in Isengard…

I just completed an essay on how the television infrastructure is marching inevitably into the cloud.

CES will feature things never heard of again, except for “Ultra HD,” which will be held up as the greatest advance in television technology ever imagined until…

In a mixed-use scenario, broadcasters could also be given the option of bidding and therefore opting out of public-interest obligations, and be subject to similar conditions as wireless licensees.

Here’s the deal about “TV everywhere,” or “Everywhere,” as the case may be.