Class A and Low-Power TV Stations Denied the Opportunity to be Heard on Potential Access to Upgrades WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Local Television and the Community Broadcasters Association today expressed their strong disappointment in the last minute decision by the FCC to cancel their...
KATV-TV, Channel 7, the ABC-affiliated broadcaster in Little Rock, has received a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission to build a 1,150-foot tower on Shinall Mountain. KATV's Redfield tower collapsed during guy wire maintenance in January.
Residents of Wilmington, N.C., will soon become laboratory rats in the nation's transition to digital TV. The Federal Communications Commission plans to make the greater Wilmington area a digital-TV test market to work out any bugs before the entire nation goes all digital on Feb.17. ...
If Democrat leaders get their way, the Fairness Doctrine, a policy abolished by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987, will be reinstated to regulate the opinions aired by broadcasters. Talk-radio and religious broadcasters would be significantly impacted. Democrat leadership has called for it, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Half...
Raise your hand if you remember the December 2002 Billboard Music Awards on Fox-TV where Cher accepted a "Lifetime Achievement" trophy. No? How about U2 lead singer Bono's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on NBC the next month? Cher and Bono each uttered an expletive...
WASHINGTON AFP — Thirty years after the US government commission that monitors communications began enforcing a ban on expletives on the airwaves, it is seeking to extend its policing to also cover swear words that slip out "fleetingly." The Federal Communications Commission FCC took a key step toward that...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will again be weighing political punishment for dirty words, this time involving undeleted expletives exuberantly uttered by the singers Bono and Cher. On Monday, in a nod to the Bush administration, the high court agreed to consider whether broadcasters can be disciplined for...
Broadcasters are concerned about a few paragraphs in the FCC's recent 98-page localism order that they say could gut local station protections of their network programming and syndicated shows, as well as weaken their retransmission consent negotiating position. Tucked into the FCC's voluminous Jan....
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Sarah Schaerr Norton of Accuracy in Media, +1-202-364- 4401 ext. 107, sarah.schaerr@aim.org New Book and TV Advertising Campaign Highlight Growing Danger to Freedom of Speech in AmericaWASHINGTON, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As special interest groups accelerate their campaign to muzzle conservative talk radio hosts, Accuracy in Media...
NEW YORK -- The TV industry's effort to prepare everyone for the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital-only TV broadcasting takes a big step forward today: Univision, the No. 1 Spanish-language broadcaster, will be the first major network owner to launch a public service ad campaign about the change. ...
NEW YORK -- Children lose when a company acquires multiple TV stations in their town, according to a study out today from a group that wants to stop the Federal Communications Commission from relaxing ownership rules. Children Now is releasing "Big Media, Little Kids 2," which...
Cable operators have agreed to make sure that when the time comes to pull the plug on analog broadcasting, none of its analog cable subscribers will lose access to any of their TV signals. It was valorous for cable to offer such a boost to the DTV transition. ...
(ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) The American people love a fair fight and so do I. especially where the issues of the day are debated. In a free market, fairness should be determined based upon equal opportunity, not equal results. Some voices are calling for Congress to...
CULTURE For the past 20 years or so, liberals and conservatives alike have loved to complain about the content of the broadcast media, albeit for different reasons. Rarely have they recognized that their complaints have a common root cause, or that they could have a common solution-the Media...
RUSH LIMBAUGH remembers the days when the Fairness Doctrine ruled the world of radio. There was a moment in 1972, he recalls, when as a young disc jockey at WIXZ, an AM station in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, he criticized coverage of the Democratic response to Richard Nixon's State of...
WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and other technology companies are bumping into resistance from U.S. television broadcasters as they seek regulatory approval to deliver high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.The technology companies, which have submitted a prototype device to the Federal Communications Commission for testing, say their aim...
NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court on Monday found that a new Federal Communications Commission policy penalizing accidentally aired expletives was invalid, saying it was "arbitrary and capricious" and might not survive First Amendment scrutiny. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not, however, outlaw the...
WASHINGTON AFP — Regulators Tuesday approved a private equity takeover of Univision, the biggest US Spanish-language broadcaster, but also fined the group 24 million dollars for a lack of educational programming. The Federal Communications Commission approved the deal for the buyout for 12.3 billion dollars plus the assumption of...
Premise Unlike other countries with government organs explicitly in charge of establishing and administering cultural policy, (1) the United States has no such entity, and has no comprehensive domestic statement of cultural policy. (2) This is not to say that the United States lacks...
The nation's four largest radio broadcasters would make payments and other contributions valued at about $10 million under a proposed settlement of a year-long probe by the Federal Communications Commission into pay-for-play claims in the music industry, say FCC officials and others with direct knowledge of the matter. ...
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