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FCC Asked to Probe TV ‘Surrogates’
Posted by Variety.com on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Iraq War
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By Daniel Kimmel, Variety Top lawmakers blast retired military analysts. |
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Stricter rules loom for media owners
Posted by LA Times on 25 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Policy, FCC, US Congress
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times The FCC defied some members of Congress in 2007 by easing a ban on ownership of a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city. Yesterday, the lawmakers took the first step toward getting even. |
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Senate Net Neutrality Hearing Recap
Posted by Benton Foundation on 23 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC
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By Benton Foundation In a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic appeared to happen when there wasn’t network congestion, in contrast to claims from the broadband provider. |
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Indecency Cases Stuck In Legal Limbo At FCC
Posted by LA Times on 14 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times A rebuke in federal court, a pending Supreme Court decision and broadcasters’ resistance put enforcement efforts in limbo. |
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Google Revives Push To Get Free Airwaves
Posted by LA Times on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Television, Google
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times The search giant has its eye on the ‘white spaces’ between TV broadcast channels. |
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Fox to FCC: your analysts’ sexual fantasies not our problem
Posted by Matthew Lasar on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Censorship
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By Matthew Lasar Fox Television has informed the Federal Communications Commission that it will not pay the agency’s proposed $91,000 fine for a pixelated strip show on Married in America |
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FCC Airwaves Auction Sets Record
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 19 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, New Media, FCC
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By Amy Schatz, WSJ After 261 rounds of bidding, a government auction of airwaves ended yesterday, raising almost $20 billion from companies hoping to build new broadband wireless networks for next-generation phones and other devices. |
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Supreme Court To Rule On Broadcast Indecency
Posted by LA Times on 18 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, FCC, Judicial, Indecency
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By David G. Savage, LA Times The justices will weigh whether federal regulators may levy large fines on broadcasters who let expletives on the airwaves during daytime and early evening hours. |
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John McCain and the FCC media ownership fight
Posted by ars technica on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, FCC, 08 Election, McCain
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By Matthew Lasar, ars technica The furor over FCC Chair Kevin Martin’s move to relax the agency’s newspaper/TV cross ownership ban got a little more political this week. |
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Memo To The FCC: Stop Obscenity, Fine CSPAN
Posted by Danny Schechter on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, Economics, FCC
Onion News: FCC Okays Nudity On TV
Posted by MediaChannel on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: VIDEO, Humor, FCC, Television, Gender
FCC spokesman Samuel Leslie appeared on Today Now! to discuss when it is appropriate for TV stations to air nudity.
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The Other Side of the McCain Lobbyist Scandal
Posted by The Nation on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, FCC, 08 Election, McCain
Pittsburgh public television activist explains how McCain broke the rules while doing the bidding of a media mogul.
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FCC Official Wants Probe Of “60 Minutes” Black-Out
Posted by Reuters on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Human Rights
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By Peter Kaplan, Reuters FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said he asked the FCC to open an inquiry into the February 24 incident at WHNT, a CBS affiliate in Alabama, in which civil rights footage from the 1960s was blacked out. |
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George Carlin Reads More Blogs Than You Do
Posted by Huffington Post on 03 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Bias, Ownership, Fox News, USGOP, Bush, Blogs, Commentary, Politics, Obama, Hillary, Cheney, Journalism, New Media, Humor, FCC, 08 Election, Democracy, Pop Culture, MSNBC
George Carlin talks to Rachel Sklar about why he loves Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann, what he sees in Fox News, and why he’s surprisingly unjaded about the Obama phenomenon. Also, he swears a lot.
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Cablers Duel FCC Over Regulations
Posted by Variety.com on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Media Freedom, FCC, Judicial
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By William Tripplett, Variety Six national cable television programming companies have jointly sued the FCC. |
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