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from: Ars Technica

Rare, medium, or well-done? FCC to be grilled by Congress

1/14/2007 7:28:42 PM, by Nate Anderson

The five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission will be facing intense Congressional scrutiny over the next few months as two separate committees plan to hold hearings on the agency's conduct. With the Democrats now in power, the topic of those hearings isn't mysterious: media consolidation, network neutrality, and the AT&T/BellSouth merger.

from: Broadcasting and Cable

Breaking News
Martin Promises Localism Study Before Ownership Move

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/8/2007

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has told a group of Senate Commerce Committee members that the FCC will complete its localism proceeding and release a report before completing its court- and congressionally mandated review of media ownership rules.

from: Broadcasting & Cable

Officials Ordered FCC Report Destroyed, Says Ex-Staffer

By John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable, 9/14/2006 5:05:00 PM

Adam Candeub, a former lawyer with the FCC's Media Bureau, is alleging that senior FCC officials ordered all copies of a localism report drafted by the FCC in 2004 to be destroyed. Candeub is now a professor at Michigan State University.