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FCC draws heat for fast track forum
Watchdog groups are incensed that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin intends to hold its final forum on media ownership in Seattle WA with only a week's ...
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The two-party presidential campaign of Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert has been derailed. His plan was to run in one primary state, his native South ...Will Supremes weigh in on fleeting expletives?
We don't know if the Supreme Court will agree to hear an FCC appeal of the Second Circuit court ruling in favor of Fox Broadcasting ...Dems cry foul as Martin heads to Seattle
The FCC announced late Friday that a hearing on localism would be conducted just one week hence in Seattle, as Chairman Kevin Martin (R) tries ...Commerce Committee keeping the heat on
The echoes from the last speaker at the FCC forum on localism in Washington had just barely died away, and already the Senate Commerce Committee ...RTNDA wants FCC off Comcast's case
The FCC has no business levying fines on Comcast news service CN8 for running video news releases on its cable network, says the Radio-Television News ...Radio gets boost from House resolution
An impressively bipartisan House Concurrent Resolution 244 has been introduced into the record by a pair of Texans representing both major parties, Gene Green (D-TX) ...FCC expands franchising guideline
When the FCFC established "rules and guidance" to prohibit local franchise authorities "from unreasonably refusing to award competitive franchises for the provision of cable services," ...Commissioners sound off
FCC Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein are treating the upcoming court-ordered review of media ownership rules with extreme skepticism. Republican Deborah Taylor Tate, on ...FCC gets an earful on localism
NAB's Marcellus Alexander pointed out at yesterday's FCC Localism Forum that broadcasters cater to their local audience or they go out of business. Eleven other ...FCC sets agenda for Seattle
A wide range of testifiers have been tapped for the 6th and final public forum on media ownership, running from 4PM-11PM Pacific time in Seattle ...Branding experts assesses the presidential races
Democrats are looking at their slate of candidates with their minds, while Republicans are using their hearts to make a determination among their options. So ...Consolidation takes another beating
John Lavine, Dean, Medill School at Northwestern University, was the only witness at yesterday's Commerce Committee hearing who offered anything resembling a life preserver for ...An act of Congress may put the brakes on Martin
If anyone had any doubt about who is driving the anti-consolidation bus in the US Senate, Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) pretty much put ...Six hung up big time over Do Not Call
The FTC has entered into settlements with six companies over violations of the National Do Not Call Registry resulting in a whopping 7.7M in civil ...Commerce Committee ready to pound on ownership
"Industry, Non-Profits, and Academia to Testify at Media Ownership Hearing." That's the headline from the Senate Commerce Committee advertising today's session on "Localism, Diversity and ...Piracy on the low seas
Jairo Diaz is getting hit with a pair of FCC fines for buccaneer behavior on the low end of the FM dial. Diaz was operating ...Consumer groups want to cross out cross-ownership
Free Press representatives testified at the Washington DC localism forum, dropping what Commissioner Michael Copps called a bombshell - saying that the FCC's own research ...Dorgan bill in the Congressional hopper
Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) "Media Ownership Act of 2007" is officially on paper, and it's taken on three more co-sponsors. The first thing the bill would ...Cochran will try to return to Washington
There has been some speculation that Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) would call it quits when his fourth term expires next year, but it can now ...Stuck in the middle
If anybody out there thinks FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got it exactly right with his proposal for a limited rollback of cross-ownership restrictions, they don't ...Dorgan pushes back
"The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has put forward what I'm sure he regards as a reasonable compromise on the issue of media ...Copps, Adelstein push back
Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein aren't buying it. They say that the top 20 markets contain 43% of the US population, exposing that ...Dereg, Martin style: Just a nibble
Watchdogs have been howling at the moon for about a month now, in preparation for the nefarious plans of FCC Chairman Kevin (R) to gift-wrap ...Lovett or leave it? Royalties down the Hatch?
Music talents Lyle Lovett and Alice Peacock held forth before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of performance royalties, better known to broadcasters as ...
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