WASHINGTON -- Media and telecommunications policy battles could take on a new look now that Democrat Jonathan Adelstein has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Federal Communications Commission. Adelstein, an aide to Senate Majo ...
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Both the House and Senate said they plan to hold hearings on the ever-burgeoning privacy scandal regarding the disclosure and sale of customers' telecommunications records. The House Commerce Committee is ...
The FCC has scheduled public hearings on local broadcasting in a half dozen cities over the next year, kicking off with this week with an Oct. 22 gathering at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center in Charlotte, N.C. The FCC has scheduled public hearings...
WASHINGTON -- The FCC announced Friday the sites of six public hearings planned by its Localism Task Force (see page 1): Charlotte, N.C., this month; San Antonio in December; Santa Cruz/Salinas, Calif., in March; ... WASHINGTON -- The FCC announced Friday the sites of...
FCC chief Michael Powell said last week that he plans to travel nationwide to meet viewers and, along the way, to instruct them how to initiate a petition to deny a station-license renewal. Broadcasters, surprisingly, appear very casual about ...
Editor's Note: As part of its celebration of 20 years covering the wireless industry, RCR Wireless News each month will take a look back at crucial points in the history of mobile telecommunications. This month, RCR Wireless News will revisit the F Editor's Note:...
Byline: Doug Halonen For alchemists in the Middle Ages, it was turning base metals into gold. For Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell today, it's finding a mathematical formula spelling out how many media properties a sing Byline: Doug Halonen...
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps scored a minor bureaucratic victory Wednesday when FCC chairman Michael Powell agreed to hold one public hearing next year on proposals to do away with media-ownership WASHINGTON -- Democratic Federal Communications Commission member ...
One side effect of the FCC's freeze on comparative hearings appears to be a freeze on permits for AM and FM upgrades, communications lawyers complained last week. One side effect of the FCC's freeze on comparative hearings appears to be a freeze...
Viacom officials are energetically polishing their corporate image during the debate over ownership dereg. Alone among the broadcast nets, Viacom has agreed to participate in the first two informal hearings on the FCC's revision of ownership limits Viacom officials are energetically polishing their corporate...
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps wants his colleagues to go outside the Washington Beltway to hear what average Americans think about media consolidation. He's getting his wish, but only by a hundred miles. In February, specific day to be arrang ...
WHEN THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION approved a controversial bid by Sirius Satellite Radio to acquire XM Satellite Radio for a reported $3.3 billion in July, many in the broadcasting industry saw the approval as giving big media leeway to form monopolies and shut out small minority-owned operations. The...
Cablevision Systems Corp. said late Wednesday that it will increase the cost of its television product by an average of 3.5 percent, but it will not increase how much it charges for its Internet or phone services. In a release, the company boasted it has not increased...
WASHINGTON -- The American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ, focusing on constitutional law, said today it has received more than 133,000 signatures on a petition urging the U.S. House of Representatives to consider the Broadcaster Freedom Act, a measure that would prohibit the return of the Fairness Doctrine. The...
STANFORD, Calif. -- The Federal Communications Commission FCC has announced the names of panelists scheduled to testify at a public hearing hosted by Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society on broadband network management practices and Internet-related issues Thursday, April 17, 2008 starting at 12 noon Pacific. ...
Last month, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, held a legislative hearing to discuss his draft legislation addressing wireless consumer issues and community broadband services (TelecomWeb wireless, March 7). After being presented with the results of...
While the long-anticipated sale of broadcasters' 700 MHz spectrum now has concluded, it really ain't over. It will take years to build the promised next- gen networks, and public safety still has no nationwide broadband presence. Verizon Wireless and AT&T were the major winners in the FCC's...
The Federal Communications Commission announced this week it will hold a public hearing on Internet regulations at Stanford University next month. The hearing is the second national discussion over Internet regulations. The first, held at Harvard University in late February, quickly became controversial after Comcast Corp....
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...
Byline: Kara Rowland, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will consider the issue of profanity on the airwaves for the first time in 30 years. The high court yesterday agreed to hear arguments on a Federal Communications...
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