By Brendan Sasso, The Hill
With Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) blocking President Obama’s two nominees to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the five-member board is set to begin the new year with the bare minimum of members needed to take official action.
The FCC has been operating with four commissioners since Meredith Attwell [...]

By Katy Bachman, Adweek
Proposal codifies newspaper-TV combos held by Tribune and News Corp.
Once again, the Federal Communications Commission decided to move forward a major regulatory rule just before holidays. Last year at this time, Chairman Julius Genachowski annoyed GOP lawmakers and even some of his fellow commissioners with the vote to pass [...]

RoadMAP and the FCC have something in common: they both want to relax over the holidays.  In RoadMAP’s case, it means that you won’t be receiving any updates until January 3.  Happy Holidays.
Speaking of Happy Holidays, please consider a donation to MAP.  In case you missed it,
here is a year-end message from MAP’s [...]