cjthomas.org : under the wire

Interesting article this morning:
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein was interviewed on NPR today, and in that interview a caller asked the Commissioner a question about the proposed merger between Sirius and XM. In his answers, Adelstein indicated that a DOJ decision may be coming soon, and that an FCC decision may come in the first quarter […]

Now there is a newswire headline that caught my eye, and the article itself is fairly interesting:
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation to undo a 50-year-old exemption that lets big radio companies like Clear Channel Communications Inc and CBS Corp air songs without paying record labels or performers any royalties.
For decades, the $20 billion radio […]