Free Press Loves Net Neutrality, Not FCC's Rules
When the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules were published last Friday, everyone in Washington expected that the first lawsuit out of the box would be filed by Verizon and maybe...
View ArticleMore Groups File Suit Over FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
This should keep the lawyers at the Federal Communications Commission busy: Three more groups have filed lawsuits against the FCC's controversial net neutrality rules, which will go into effect Nov....
View ArticleVerizon Challenges FCC's Net Neutrality Rules, Again
On Friday, Verizon filed suit challenging the Federal Communications Commission's controversial net neutrality rules for a second time. The company originally filed suit earlier this year, only to...
View ArticleGroups Urge Court: Don't Cave In on Political Disclosure Online
A half-dozen public interest groups that advocated for the Federal Communications Commission's new rule to move TV station political files online, petitioned the court to defend the regulation in the...
View ArticleGroups Unveil Dueling Declarations of Internet Freedom
Washington seems to be in love with codes of conduct, bills of rights, and now declarations of Internet freedom. On the eve of July 4, policy influencers have come up with not one, but two...
View ArticlePublic Interest Groups Prepare to Review TV Political Ad Files
Public interest groups are practically salivating that starting today TV stations must begin posting online political disclosure files containing information about who is spending what in the 2012...
View ArticleFirst Mover: Robert McDowell
Specs Age 49Who FCC commissioner; post-election, back in minority as Republican memberFCC stuff can be pretty geeky. You’ve quoted everything from Shakespeare to Star Trek. What we do touches the daily...
View ArticleFCC Takes Up Low-Power Radio to Add Diversity to Airwaves
Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create...
View ArticleSenate Dems Blast FCC Draft to Relax Media Ownership Rules
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski is catching a lot of flak inside the Beltway for how he's handling a draft order of media ownership rules. Rather than holding a public...
View ArticleGenachowski Hits the Pause Button
More than two months after Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski circulated an order proposing to lift the ban on owning a newspaper and radio station in a market, the...
View ArticleAnother Delay in FCC Media Ownership Rules Proceeding
Here's a shocker: The Federal Communications Commission's proceeding on media ownership rules is now officially on hold pending an impact study on how cross-ownership affects minority ownership. It...
View ArticleStudy: Cross-Ownership of Media Doesn't Impact Minorities
One of the biggest arguments against liberalizing the cross-ownership of media properties in a local market—that it would limit minority and female ownership—was shot down in a study conducted as part...
View ArticleMozilla Helps Launch Coalition to Stop NSA Spy Dragnet
Mozilla was out front and center for the launch of Stop Watching Us, a coalition of more than 80 civil liberties and privacy organizations calling for an end to what they call spying by the National...
View ArticlePublic Interest Groups, Cable Companies Oppose Gannett-Belo Merger
Gannett's $2.2 billion deal to buy Belo to become a 43 TV station super group is opening up some old-media consolidation wounds in Washington. Several public interest groups representing newspaper and...
View ArticleFCC's Wheeler Vows to Take Next Steps on Net Neutrality 'Shortly'
The pressure is mounting on the Federal Communications Commission to revisit how it will regulate net neutrality in the wake of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decision that tossed the rules back in...
View ArticleComcast-Time Warner Cable Regulatory Review Will Be Raucous
The proposed $45.2 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable will keep both public interest groups and regulators busy in the coming months. Expect a raucous and drawn-out transaction...
View ArticleAT&T Deal to Buy DirecTV Rocks Telecom, Media Universe
The AT&T deal to buy DirecTV is officially only a couple hours old, but it's already shaking up the telecom and media industry and causing consumer groups to fret. Announced shortly after 5 p.m....
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