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Media and Broadcasting Policy

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Suhm's "Very Disappointed" By Turn of Events as Occupy Dallas, City Head Back to Courthouse

    Photo by Chris Howell​Below you'll find the original agreement the city of Dallas and Occupy Dallas entered into last month after that trip to the courthouse that was all fist-bumps and high-fives. Problem is, the agreement is affixed as an exhibit to even more legal docs Occupy Dallas's attorneys ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Mayor Awaits Report on Occupy Dallas; Group Vows It Won't Protest Omni, Vets Parade

    Photo by Chris Howell​In the wake of two reports concerning the city's response to Saturday's arrest of eight Occupy Dallasites, some Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Is the city going to boot the protesters camping out behind Dallas City Hall, allowed by agreement following last month's trip to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Fifth Circuit Judges Spend 100 Pages Debating Plano "Candy Cane" Case, First Amendment

    ​When last we checked in on the nearly 8-year-old (!) case involving those Plano ISD students (and their parents, more to the point) suing the district over those "Jesus is the Reason for the Season" pencils and candy canes they weren't allowed to distribute during winter-break parties, one of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    One Way the NBC-Comcast Merger Could Change the Way KXAS-Channel 5 Makes News

    KNUS99.comUsed to be a time when Chip Moody and Harold Taft were all the "hyperlocal" you needed.​Everything I've learned about the more-n-likely-to-happen Kabletown ... pardon, Comcast-NBC merger I've learned from 30 Rock. Well, OK, not everything: This morning's New York Times alters our attenti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Six Months After Groden's Arrest in Dealey Plaza, Muni Judge Rules: Case Dismissed!

    Robert Groden​Back in June we broke the news that Robert Groden, perhaps the most familiar (and certainly the most respected) of all the Dealey Plaza vendors peddling JFK assassination materials, had been arrested and detained by Dallas Police officers on the clean-up crackdown. Groden filed a fed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    DOJ, FCC Settle With HP (For $16.25 Mil!) Over E-Rate Fraud In Dallas, Houston ISDs

    Ruben Bohuchot​Back in June 2009, you may recall, the Dallas Independent School District and the U.S. Department of Justice settled up over the misuse of funds provided to the district for the feds' E-Rate program, which was created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommunications services ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    FCC Tells FOX to Hand Over Indecency Complaints. Instead, It Sends 'Em to KDFW.

    ​Variety's reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is fining FOX $25,000 over the January 3 episode of American Dad titled "Horse Chores," in which -- as the trade's Ted Johnson puts it -- there's a scene "in which two characters engage in ribald dialogue, followed by a scene in which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    It's Official: KERA's All-Music Station, KXT, Will Make Noise Starting November 9

    ​At last: KERA just sent word that its announced-in-June all-music radio station, now known as KKXT-FM (91.7), will officially makes its bow November 9 at 7 a.m. Also announced this morning were the nationally syndicated programs KXT, as it'll be known, will air: Acoustic Café, American Routes, M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    "The Process": Wanna Know When KERA's Debuting That New Music Station? Stay Tuned.

    KNUS99.com​I was tracking down some information on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site regarding an unrelated matter, then figured while I was there I'd check in to see how the KVTT-to-KERA transfer was going. Because every few days, someone will ask me when KERA's going to launch its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    KTVT's Got Itself a New UHF Signal

    ​Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate "has received thousan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Since Going All-Digital, KTVT-Channel 11 Has Lost "Large Numbers of Over-the-Air Viewers"

    www.mcsittel.comSo reports the great Ed Bark, who's peeked at a copy of the CBS affiliate's petition to the Federal Communications Commission in which KTVT's asking for a new frequency pronto. Uncle Barky's got the details, but the short version is: Channel 11 says the digital transition on June 12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    DOJ to Dallas ISD: Pay Up. And Say Adios to $150 Million in Federal Funding Requests.

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2008

    Mark Cuban Will Be on the Interwebs Today, Courtesy the FCC

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    Shawn Williams Is, As Always, Good For Listening on National Public Radio

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2007

    Accused of Payola (Again), Clear Channel Waves Bye-Bye to Waiver Clause

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2007

    Listen Up: Clear Channel's Accused of Payola. Again.

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2006

    Fake News is a Real Pain

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2006

    And Now, The Fake News

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2006

    Who Hoak?

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2006

    One More Reason Why Houston Sucks

    This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice's press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give "affordable access to telecommuni ... More >>

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Play Nice or Else

    Plus: Unripe Banana Case

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Thanks for the Mammary

    Plano group wants FCC to get a handle on breasts

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Tin Giant

    Let Belo buy every station in the country--makes my job easier

  • Culture

    June 19, 2003

    What's Left of the Dial

    One nonprofit helped save radio. Sort of. For now.

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Public Disinterest

    So is media consolidation a bad thing?

  • Music

    March 20, 2003

    A Sad Salvation

    At SXSW, you couldn't hear the bad news over all that music

  • Culture

    February 14, 2002

    Net Loss

    The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Radio-Free Garland

    An unlikely suburban airwave pirate lands in the FCC's crosshairs

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    Belo the belt

    When Belo got into the cable news business, it set off a war with Time Warner that has both companies fighting over Texas

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    Taking Howard Stern seriously

    The last interview you'll ever need to read with radio's greatest, loudest talker--and, just maybe, Hollywood's newest movie star

  • News

    February 8, 1996

    Lost children

    Television has replaced the family as the biggest influence in some kids' lives

  • News

    August 10, 1995

    The mouse that roared

    How telecommunications deregulation will help Disney--and other media giants--rule the world

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