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- Media Activist Organizations and Web sites * ACME: Action Coalition for Media Education www.acmecoalition.org * Alliance for Community Media (U.S.) www.alliancecm.org * Alliance for a Media Literate America www.amlainfo.org/index.php * Alternative Information and Development Centre AIDC South Africa http://aidc.org.za/ * Alternative...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Groups call on FCC to promote competition
- Together with the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, Media Access Project has filed comments recommending the Federal Communications Commission take steps to ensure new spectrum offerings promote competition in the wireless market and provide consumers with a viable broadband alternative to wireline access such as DSL and cable. The policy recommendations...
- Research articles 2007-05-28
- Public Interest Attorney to Head United Church of Christ's Media Justice Agency
- CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Cheryl A. Leanza, a public interest attorney and veteran First Amendment advocate, has been named managing director of the United Church of Christ's Office of Communications Inc., the church's historic media justice agency that first insisted that those holding Federal Communications Commission licenses must...
- Research articles 2006-08-16
- In the air.(Suburban Living)
- Remotely interesting: The local grassroots group Chicago Media Action has joined the Washington, D.C.-based Media Access Project in filing a petition to deny license renewal for nine Chicago TV stations: WBBM Channel 2, WMAQ Channel 5, WLS Channel 7, WGN Channel 9, WCIU Channel 26, WFLD...
- Research articles 2005-11-08
- Pro-Municipal Service Movement Gains Traction
- Industry, Public-Advocacy Groups Target State Prohibitions A groundswell movement is starting to gain momentum to counter proposed and current state legislation that bans or limits municipal government provisioning of broadband Internet access and other communications services. Industry and public advocacy groups are rallying against what they...
- Research articles 2005-04-13
- Media general faces TV/paper fight.(Washington Watch)(media activists filed petition against Media General Inc.'s crossownership)(television)(Brief Article)
- Media activists are gearing up to fight Media General's request for an FCC waiver that will let it keep both WMBB-TV and the Jackson County Floridian in Panama City, Fla. Without a waiver to the FCC's ban on local TV/newspaper crossownership,...
- Research articles 2005-01-03
- Ownership-rewrite deadline challenged. (Capital Watch).(Michael Powell to rewrite media ownership rules)(Brief Article)
- Like Julius Caesar, FCC Chairman Michael Powell may have to create a new calendar. That's what some say he will need to meet his late-spring deadline for revising ownership rules. Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman above predicts the rewrite will last through summer, if not...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- Valenti, sachs top association pay scales: tax returns tell who makes what at media lobbies, trade and advocacy groups. (Exclusive Salary Survey).(Jack Valenti and Robert Sachs)
- Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti and National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Robert Sachs are the top breadwinners among 119 non-profit, tax-exempt media lobbies, professional societies, advocacy groups and networks surveyed by BROADCASTING & CABLE. Valenti leads...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Consumer Groups File Appeal Over ISPs
- Byline: Alicia Mundy Consumer groups represented by Media Access Project filed a petition in the Federal Appeals Court in Washington, D.C., last week over the Federal Communications Commission's decision not to force AT&T and Comcast to reveal the details of their ISP agreement with AOL Time Warner. In the...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
- Now he tells us - No Comment
- Former FCC Chairman William Kennard now says allowing media companies to integrate media content and distribution was the biggest mistake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. "There was tremendous pressure on policymakers to consolidate these markets," the magazine Broadcasting & Cable reports Kennard saying during a lecture sponsored by the...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- No-cut contract. (TV Stations).(sales of KPXF to Univision)(Brief Article)
- The terms of Bud Paxson's planned sale of KPXFTV Fresno, Calif., have raised complaints in Washington. Media Access Project is asking the FCC to block the S35 million sale to Univision, claiming terms of the deal would violate the station's right to reject network programming. That's...
- Research articles 2002-09-09
- Groups want IDs on PSAs.(anti-drug public service announcements draw controversy)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- MAP, NORML petition to have antidrug ads name government as sponsor; Ad Council, MADD, others oppose the move A White House antidrug program that embarrassed networks after Salon.com revealed that TV scripts were being submitted for government approval continues to cause...
- Research articles 2001-06-25
- Warning on mega mergers.(Brief Article)
- Public advocates fear government is ignoring creation of 'media colossus' Like skeptical scientists in a 1950s horror flick, government officials are ignoring the "conjoined media colossus" forming in the broadband economy's primordial stew, public advocates warned last week. ...
- Research articles 2000-04-17
- MAP hits back on LPFM.(Media Access Project's report on low-power FM radio stations)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Low-power radio stations won't interfere with existing FMs, according to the Media Access Project, which submitted its version of the engineering impacts of microradio to the FCC Nov. 15. "The [current] FCC licensing procedure is definitely conservative," study author Theodore S. Rappaport said during a conference...
- Research articles 1999-11-29
- NOTEBOOK
- In attempt to protect online consumers, some state officials have created separate agencies to handle matters arising in unique context of Internet. N.Y. and Pa. attorneys gen. have established separate agencies to handle Internet issues and Fla. is just beginning to think about it, officials said. Spokesman for Internet lobbying...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- PERSONALS
- ESPN Pres. George Bodenheimer will add responsibility for all domestic and international operations, assuming duties of Steven Bornstein, who moved to ABC pres... Anne Nelson, 54-year employee of CBS, promoted to vp-business affairs, CBS Entertainment... Barry Umansky, NAB deputy gen. counsel and former FCC, is leaving Assn. after 20 years...
- Research articles 1999-03-08
- Puzzling comment.
- Andrew Schwartzman might want to leave the newspaper at home the next time he's asked to testify at an FCC hearing. The Media Access Project president was either multitasking or had tuned out fellow panelists during a hearing on broadcast ownership rules when Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth...
- Research articles 1999-02-15
- Ancillary Fees Debated At Fcc
- Wide range of fees to be charged broadcasters for providing digital ancillary services has been proposed in comments to FCC, with TV groups seeking low fee (no more than 2%), with 2-year delay in start of collecting fees, and nonbroadcast groups seeking fee of up to 10%. In reply comments...
- Research articles 1998-08-10
- A 1994 FCC ruling that permitted broadcasters to channel antiabortion ads. (Federal Communications Commission decision allowing restrictions on advertising times overturned by court)(Brief Article)
- The '94ruling was in response to the antiabortion campaign ads of a defeated 1992 Georgia congressional candidate. Appeals followed, from candidate Daniel Becker and, separately, the Media Access Project, representing the Washington Area Citizens Interested in Viewers' Constitutional Rights. "A licensee's right to channel political...
- Research articles 1996-09-16
- Map goes to court. (The Week that Was).(Media Access Project advocates access to AT&T-AOL Time Warner deal)(Brief Article)
- Media Access Project last week asked federal judges to grant opponents of the Comcast/AT&T deal access to AT&T's confidential ISP-carriage deal with AOL Time Warner. Separately, ... Media Access Project last week asked federal judges to grant opponents of the Comcast/AT&T deal access to...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
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