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- ACLU joins access fight: group calls securing open access key First Amendment issue. (Top of the Week).(American Civil Liberties Union)(Brief Article)
- The American Civil Liberties Union is hoping to use its free-speech credential to boost the fortunes of those trying to force companies to carry competing Internet providers on their broadband networks. The ACLU, which first announced its supp The...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Fla. Access Setback Follows Two Wins.
- Cable's fight against open-access legislation was set back in Florida this week, while lobbyists made headway in four states, quashing legislation before it even emerged from committee. The Florida challenge pitted Comcast Corp. and Advanced Cable's fight...
- Research articles 2000-02-21
- Time Warner tests First Amendment. (Time Warner Entertainment Company L.P. challenges constitutionality of Cable Act of 1992)
- Having concluded that the 1992 Cable Act cannot be implemented in a constitutionally sound manner, Time Warner Entertainment Co. last Thursday sued to have overturned all of the fundamental provisions of the law, as well as public, educational and go Having concluded that the 1992 Cable...
- Research articles 1992-11-09
- Why cable needs to keep eye on stern: FCC asked to add satellite radio to rules barring broadcast 'indecency'.(Federal Communications Commission)
- WASHINGTON -- When Howard Stern agreed last month to jump to satellite radio in 2006, the heavily fined shock jock said he was doing so mainly to escape the grasp of federal indecency laws. But at least one traditional radio company isn't...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- Playboy Has Date with Supreme Court.
- WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed last week to review whether a 1996 channel-scrambling law aimed at adult networks violates the First Amendment rights of Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. The decision was a setback for Playboy, which had ...
- Research articles 1999-06-28
- First Amendment end run: Michigan trumps cable's speech rights by convicting a man of indecent exposure on TV; ACLU appeals case.(Top of the Week)
- Timothy Bruce Huffman was convicted of exposing himself on TV. In the first case of its kind, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken over his appeal. A three-minute segment of Huffman's Friday-night half-hour show on GRTV, the public ac ...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- Lamb slams FTC plan. (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network Chairman Brian Lamb criticizes Federal Trade Commission plan to force Time Warner Inc. cable systems to carry competitive news service)(Brief Article)
- Says forcing TW systems to carry news channel is violation of First Amendment The Federal Trade Commission's plan to force some Time Warner cable systems to carry an additional, competitive 24-hour news service is antithetical to First Amendm ...
- Research articles 1996-12-02
- FCC on the offensive.(Editorials: broadcasting & cable committed to the first amendment)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- We understand that Infinity will be fined, and more than the token amount, for indecency by the FCC for the Opie & Anthony stunt, in which WNEW-FM New York listeners were encouraged to have sex in public places and talk about it on air. One of ...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Good news.(Editorials: broadcasting & cable committed to the first amendment)(ABC News is gaining more screen time)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- We don't know whether it's the addition of Rick Kaplan to ABC News or the "what have we got to lose" mentality of a network whose entertainment programming has been ratings-challenged at best, but ABC News is getting more screen time. Whi We don't...
- Research articles 2003-08-25
- MTV Networks. (Cable Networks).(advertises in favor of First Amendment)(Brief Article)
- MTV Networks put its money where its mouth is last week, taking out an ad supporting the First Amendment in the program for The Media Institute's awards banquet in Washington (it was also a sponsor of ... MTV Networks put its money where its...
- Research articles 2002-10-28
- Telco gets green light. (ban on cable TV/telephone crossownership violates Bell Atlantic's First Amendment rights) (Brief Article)
- Bell Atlantic chalked up another court victory last week in its quest to win the right to provide video programing in its own service area. It is the fifth straight legal triumph for regional Bell companies seeking to eliminate the ban...
- Research articles 1994-11-28
- Lights out for Bonzo.(Editorials: broadcasting & cable committed to the first amendment)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- Back in 1991, the FCC modified its political broadcasting rules to restore the common sense stripped from them in the FCC's 1976 Bedtime for Bonzo ruling, when the FCC held that old Ronald Reagan movies triggered broadcaster obligations to provide Back in 1991,...
- Research articles 2003-08-18
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- Advocacy groups sue FCC on indecency rules. (cable television regulation)
- WASHINGTON -- A coalition of cable and First Amendment advocacy groups filed suit here last week challenging the Federal Communications Commission's newly adopted policy aimed at limiting indecent programming on leased access channels. The ch WASHINGTON -- A...
- Research articles 1993-03-01
- Cable America tests FTC over merger. (Cable Alabama Corp. contests Federal Trade Commission's jurisdiction over merger with Comcast Cablevision of Huntsville Inc.)
- Cable America Tests FTC Over Merger After using the First Amendment and federal Cable Act to block a city effort to halt its Huntsville, Ala. merger with Comcast, Cable America is now using similar arguments to test Federal Trade Commission jur...
- Research articles 1991-12-23
- Court upholds heart of Cable Act; Time Warner vows to appeal but is pleased that three provisions are found unconstitutional. (Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992)
- Rejecting the cable industry claim to the First Amendment's top rank, a federal judge last Thursday upheld the government's right to regulate cable rates and programing distribution and TV stations' right to demand compensation from cable systems t Rejecting the cable industry claim to...
- Research articles 1993-09-20
- Court OKs cable regs. (upheld constitutionality of cable regulations on rates and public, educational and government uses)(Brief Article)
- A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last week upheld the constitutionality of a series of cable regulations spawned by the 1984 and 1992 cable laws. Rejecting a First Amendment challenge from Time Warner and other cable A...
- Research articles 1996-09-02
- TCI loses N.C. appeal, pushes referendum. (appeals court ruling involving Tele-Communications Inc. and Morganton, North Carolina)
- TCI Loses N.C. Appeal, Pushes Referendum A federal appeals court ruling involving Tele-Communications Inc. and Morganton, N.C., has reaffirmed that the franchising process imposes some limits on a cable operator's First Amendment rights. M TCI...
- Research articles 1991-12-02
- A fear of commitment: The Supreme Court's refusal to pronounce a First Amendment standard for cable television in Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC
- Since its inception in the 1950s,1 the cable television industry has expanded tremendously and now serves almost sixty million subscribers.2 Congress began regulating the industry by applying extant communications legislation before the first cable television system was ever installed.3 Eventually, however, laws specifically dealing with the cable industry were implemented.4...
- Research articles 1997-01-01
- US cable group dealt court blow.(Time Warner Cable loses suit over cable network's affiliation with programmers)(Brief Article)
- Time Warner Cable has lost a court challenge that sought to overturn a cap on reach of cable operators and content restrictions imposed by 1992 Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act. Time Warner, second largest cable operator in US, argued that 30 per cent limit...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- The U.S. Court of Appeals last week stayed enforcement of the FCC's new rules regulating indecency on cable leased-access channels. (Brief Article)
- The U.S. Court of Appeals last week stayed enforcement of the FCC's new rules regulating indecency on cable leased-access channels. The rules, mandated by the ... The U.S. Court of Appeals last week stayed enforcement of the FCC's new rules regulating indecency on cable...
- Research articles 1993-04-12
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