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WASHINGTON — Free Press on Thursday called out the Sinclair Broadcast Group for failing to explain how its proposed takeover of Tribune Media would comply with federal statutes and regulations.

The loss of local news coverage has made it difficult for residents to stay informed, make decisions about voting, and participate in municipal and civic affairs.
However, there is a glimmer of hope that this trend can be reversed.

Free Press advocates say rule changes are “massive handout” to broadcaster Sinclair that would have far-reaching and negative impacts in communities nationwide.

Net Neutrality activists dressed in Halloween costumes plan to take to the streets of Washington near FCC headquarters Monday morning to protest FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to bury Title II.

An ambitious Federal Communications Commission plan to kill a raft of limits on media companies’ reach is likely to wind up in court.

In a ruling seen as a major win for the largest media conglomerates in the country, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the Main Studio Rule, a 77-year-old regulation that required local television and radio broadcasters to maintain physical studios in the communities they serve.

FCC Chairman Pai told a House oversight committee hearing that he plans to bring to a vote at the Commission’s Nov. 16 meeting an order that would abolish the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule. Also in the crosshairs is the radio-television cross-ownership rule.

Nothing Donald Trump says to attack journalism is as dangerous as what Trump’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, does to attack journalism.

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released a plan that would eviscerate the Lifeline program.

The Federal Communications Commission is planning to vote in November on proposals to roll back ownership rules that were meant to support diverse voices in local media.