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Senators Seek To Cancel Easing Of Cross-Ownership
Posted by LA Times on 06 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Newspapers, Business, Licensing
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times Tribune Co. and other companies with newspapers and broadcast stations in the same city are expected to fight legislation that seeks to invalidate a recent FCC ruling. |
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Pakistan Targets TV Critics
Posted by AP on 26 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Television, Licensing
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By Robin McDowell, AP Pakistan’s elections were supposed to usher in democracy after eight years of military rule, but for Talat Hussain, life doesn’t look much different. |
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FCC OKs Murdoch Asset-Swap Deal
Posted by LA Times on 26 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Cable, Business, Licensing
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times Federal regulators approved a long-pending deal allowing Rupert Murdoch to swap his controlling interest in DirecTV Group Inc. for a larger stake in his own company. |
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FCC OKs Clear Channel Buyout
Posted by AP on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, FCC, Cable, Business, Licensing
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By John Dunbar, AP The FCC has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation’s largest radio broadcaster private. |
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FTC Approves Google Deal Despite Privacy Concerns
Posted by LA Times on 21 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, New Media, FCC, Advertising, Google, Business, Licensing
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By Jim Puzzanghera and Joseph Menn, LA Times In approving Google Inc.’s $3.1-billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc., federal regulators determined that there was plenty of competition in the fast-growing Internet advertising world. |
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Fox Station Challenged On Renewal of License
Posted by NY Times on 29 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, Journalism, FCC, Licensing
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By Elizabeth Dwoskin, NY Times The FCC gave the public the opportunity to weigh in on whether a Fox-owned station with a unique relationship to New Jersey has earned the right to have its broadcast license renewed. |
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F.C.C. Chief Seeks Votes To Tighten Cable Rules
Posted by NY Times on 26 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, FCC, Telecommunications, Cable, Licensing
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By Stephen Labaton, NY Times The head of the FCC is struggling to find enough support from a majority of the agency’s commissioners to regulate cable television companies more tightly. |
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The Battle For Control Of The Internet
Posted by Times Online on 13 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, FCC, Google, Licensing
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By Jonathan Weber, Times Online Web content may be resistant to regulation, but the architecture of the internet is a battleground for lobbyists and lawmakers |
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Senators Seek 90-Day FCC Ownership Rule Delay
Posted by Reuters on 09 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Action, FCC, Activism, Licensing
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By Peter Kaplann, Reuters Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota said he would introduce bipartisan legislation that would impose a 90-day delay on an impending FCC decision on whether to ease rules governing media ownership. |
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House Votes To Extend Ban On Internet Taxes
Posted by LA Times on 17 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Economics, Action, Media Freedom, New Media, Policy, Judicial, Licensing
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times With the current moratorium set to expire at the end of the month, the House voted 405 to 2 to extend the politically popular exemption until 2011. |
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The RIAA Vs. The World
Posted by Counterpunch on 11 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Commentary, New Media, Licensing, Copyright
Keep on Downloading–Just Don’t Get Caught! The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), representing massive multinational corporations with tentacles in every corner of the global economy, has just won a lawsuit against a mother of two who refused to be pushed around.
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Small webcasters offered royalty deal
Posted by AP on 23 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Technology, Media Freedom, New Media, Policy, Telecommunications, Radio, Licensing, Alternative Press
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By Dibya Sarkar, AP Some small Internet radio broadcasters are rejecting a new offer from a music industry group to pay discounted royalty rates for streaming music online through 2010. |
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FCC Establishes Rules For Airwaves Auction
Posted by LA Times on 01 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, Technology, New Media, FCC, Telecommunications, Licensing, Satellite Radio
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By Jim Puzzanghera, LA Times Cellphone users will get more choices, but a proposal by Google to open up a large swath of the spectrum is rebuffed. |
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Why ‘Fairness’ Fails
Posted by The Phoenix on 26 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, Free Speech, Politics, Media Freedom, New Media, FCC, Television, Radio, YouTube, Cable, Licensing, Satellite Radio, Satellite TV, Right v. Left
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The Phoenix The excesses of right-wing talk radio have sparked a move to re-impose an equal-time doctrine. It’s a bad idea. |
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Charting the $480 billion US spectrum giveaway
Posted by ars technica on 20 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, FCC, Business, Licensing, US Congress
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By Nate Anderson, Ars Technica Snider heads up the Wireless Future Program at New America, and his paper offers an inside look at the sometimes-dirty world of spectrum lobbying, which Snider characterizes as responsible for a $480 billion giveaway from the public treasury. |
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