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kkholland

Investors Urge FCC to Relax Media-Ownership Rules - WSJ.com - 0 views

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media industry economics media ownership FCC regulation loosening ownership consolidation

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  • "We have so many other voices out there, [loosening ownership limits] does not stifle the free exchange of ideas out there anymore," said Rick Peters, president of Bluewater Broadcasting, a small Montgomery, Ala.-based radio company
  • FCC officials are looking at what the agency can do to improve the health of the newspapers, TV and radio stations, which continue to lose customers and advertising revenue to online competitors.
  • "Debt and equity providers are largely disinterested in media and broadcast properties," said Brian Rich, managing partner at Catalyst Investors, a New York private-equity fund.
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  • Former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin ran into strong opposition from Democrats in 2007 when he proposed relatively modest changes to a long-standing rule that barred companies from owning both a newspaper and TV or radio station in the same city. The proposal was eventually adopted but almost immediately challenged by activists in a federal appeals court, where it remains pending.
  • After the workshop, a nonprofit interest group opposed to media consolidation, Free Press, released a statement expressing disappointment that the FCC did not include the views of consumer advocates on the panel. In a statement, an FCC spokeswoman said the workshop was focused on broadcasters' access to financing and was "one in a series we will hold throughout the proceeding."
  • scwalton on 13 Jan 10
     
    "Media-ownership rules should be loosened to allow more consolidation and attract capital to the industry, representatives of the investment community said Tuesday at a Federal Communications Commission workshop on how the agency might change ownership rules later this year."
  • Theresa de los Santos on 15 Jan 10
     
    At an FCC workshop, industry representatives argue for relaxed media-ownership rules to allow more consolidation and to attract capital to the industry. FCC officials are looking at what the agency can do to improve the health of the newspapers, TV and radio stations, which continue to lose customers and advertising revenue to online competitors.
kkholland

Minority Groups Petition FCC To Stop Their Declining Media Presence | AllAccess.com - 0 views

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FCC Minority representation media diversity

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  • kkholland on 20 Feb 10
     
    Two dozen minority interest groups sign letter to FCC Chariman advocating for changes in FCC policy to promote media diversity. Details declines in minority radio ownership and includes several policy suggestions.
kkholland

RIAA Tells FCC: ISPs Need to Be Copyright Cops - PC World - 0 views

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Net Neutrality copyright copyright enforcement RIAA FCC

shared by kkholland on 17 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers' flexibly to "address" illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
  • The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, the RIAA said.
  • Other groups called on the FCC to stay out of the copyright enforcement business. If ISPs are required to check for copyright infringement, they could interfere with legal online activities, said six digital rights and business groups, including Public Knowledge, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • ISPs are "poorly placed to determine whether or not transfers of content are infringing or otherwise unlawful, a task generally reserved to attorneys, courts, and law enforcement," the groups said in a filing with the FCC. "In short, the issue raised by broadening the 'reasonable network management' exception to include copyright enforcement and the blocking of unlawful content is not whether ISPs may undertake these efforts, but rather whether they may inflict collateral damage on lawful traffic when they do so."
  • kkholland on 17 Jan 10
     
    The RIAA argues ISP's should perform copyright enforcement, and claim Net Neutrality blocks such efforts.
Theresa de los Santos

FCC Launches Future of Media Initiative - 2010-01-21 17:32:12 | Broadcasting & Cable - 0 views

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Future of Media Initiative FCC

shared by Theresa de los Santos on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Theresa de los Santos on 22 Jan 10
     
    The FCC is launching an inquiry into the future of media and its role in providing news and civic information. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that rapid technological change has caused financial turmoil that calls into question whether traditional media will continue to be the go-to provider of essential news and information. The commission issued a public notice teeing up some of the questions it wants answered and launched a web site to collect some of that input
scwalton

FCC releases Internet speed test tool | Reuters - 0 views

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FCC 2010 internet Broadband

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  • scwalton on 15 Mar 10
     
    ""The FCC's new digital tools will arm users with real-time information about their broadband connection and the agency with useful data about service across the country," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. The FCC is also collecting information about where broadband is not available."
scwalton

FCC's Broadband Plan: Mobile Broadband Will Save Us! - GigaOM - 0 views

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2010 Broadband Mobile TV Mobile Future Auction Mobile Phone FCC Broadcast Spectrum Mobile

shared by scwalton on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • scwalton on 18 Mar 10
     
    "The details as to how the FCC plans to go from having 50 MHz available for mobile broadband today to 500 MHz in 10 years will result in a pretty big legislative battle as the FCC tries to nab broadcaster spectrum and incumbents and tech firms position to own large chunks of those valuable airwaves."
scwalton

Media Morning: Cable and satellite companies ask FCC for help - USATODAY.com - 2 views

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FCC 2010 cable SNL Kagan Broadcast advertising Satellite television Contract Dispute Media Content Programming Blackout ABC

shared by scwalton on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • scwalton on 15 Mar 10
     
    "To stop broadcasters from flexing their muscles, the coalition asked the FCC to mandate that disputes be settled by an arbitrator. They also want regulators to bar stations from withholding their programming, their most potent bargaining chip."
Theresa de los Santos

Retransmission disagreements may result in revamped FCC policy - 1 views

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Media Retransmission FCC

shared by Theresa de los Santos on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Theresa de los Santos on 11 Jan 10
     
    The FCC will address the issue of retransmission at its Jan. 20, 2010 meeting following several recent disputes.
Julian Gottlieb

Free Press: Consumer Voice Missing from FCC Media Ownership Panel | Humanitarian News - 0 views

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FCC consumer advocacy media ownership panel

shared by Julian Gottlieb on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Julian Gottlieb on 18 Jan 10
     
    Has the consumer been neglected in the panel debates about FCC media ownership issues?
Theresa de los Santos

FCC Commissioner: Government Needs To Stay Out Of Journalism - 0 views

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Government Regulation FCC

shared by Theresa de los Santos on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Theresa de los Santos on 22 Jan 10
     
    On the same day that the Federal Communications Commission launched its Future of Media initiative, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker said in a Washington D.C. speech that government needs to stay out of the media business mess.
Julian Gottlieb

Clyburn aims to help consumers, minority media at FCC - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 0 views

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FCC Mignon Clyburn minority media broadband

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  • Julian Gottlieb on 01 Feb 10
     
    Clyburn is new to her job at the FCC, but she is championing consumer focused issues and wants to help low-income, minority and rural communities get better computer training to adopt broadband.
scwalton

http://www.wirelessgoodness.com/2010/03/12/fcc-documents-reveal-dual-band-wireless-n-su... - 0 views

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2010 FCC internet Apple iPad

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  • scwalton on 15 Mar 10
     
    "We've known for a while that the Apple iPad will support 802.11 a/b/g/n. However, thanks to Apple's FCC filings today, we now know that the device rocks dual-band wireless-N in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands."
kkholland

Radio Business Report/Television Business Report - Voice of the Broadcasting Industry - 0 views

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FCC Media regulation hostage taking subscription rates super bowl Oscars negotiations

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  • kkholland on 20 Mar 10
     
    Consumer watchdog groups complained to the FCC about cable conglomerates using "hostage taking" as a negotiating tactic. The groups referenced the subscription rate battles that threatened to keep consumers from watching the Super Bowl and the Oscars in a recent letter to the FCC.
Julian Gottlieb

FCC Releases Apps To Independently Test The Speed Of Wireless Networks | paidContent - 0 views

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FCC android iPhone national broadband plan network speed

shared by Julian Gottlieb on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Julian Gottlieb on 12 Mar 10
     
    FCC has created a mobile application that tests the speed and quality of broadband connection.
kkholland

Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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net neutrality google google fiber network discrimination broadband fcc

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  • kkholland on 20 Mar 10
     
    This blog post situates the ambitious Google Fiber project against recently announced FCC plans to spur faster broadband development. The article also discusses issues of media regulation, specifically pricing and competition.
kkholland

Waldman: No FCC Bailouts in Store for Media - 2010-02-08 05:00:00 | Broadcasting & Cable - 0 views

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FCC policy regulation subsidy fairness doctrine Waldman broadcast cable internet

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  • kkholland on 09 Feb 10
     
    Broadcasting and Cable conducts a sit down interview with Steven Waldman, senior advisor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, to discuss the Governments role in balancing old and new media. Subsidies and media industry economics are also discussed.
Ethan Hartsell

FCC Launches 'Future of Media' Inquiry - 0 views

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fcc inquiry media future

shared by Ethan Hartsell on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Ethan Hartsell on 22 Feb 10
     
    The FCC is holding a Mrch 4 workshop to examine the future to media industries.
kkholland

Utility Regulators Propose Key Tweaks In FCC Net Neutrality Proposal - 2010-02-18 17:29... - 0 views

www.broadcastingcable.com/...CC_Net_Neutrality_Proposal.php

Net Neutrality Broadcasting and Cable media public utilities regulators FCC

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  • kkholland on 20 Feb 10
     
    Ultility regulators weigh in on FCC proposed regulation, stressing non-discrimination on peer-to-peer and political content by broadband providers.
Theresa de los Santos

FCC Goal of 100 Million Households with Super-Fast Broadband | Free Press - 0 views

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FCC Broadband Internet Service Policy Fast

shared by Theresa de los Santos on 17 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Theresa de los Santos on 17 Feb 10
     
    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke today about some of the likely recommendations in the National Broadband Plan. Among them is a goal of 100 million households at speeds of 100 Megabits per second."
Julian Gottlieb

Broadband carriers speak out against FCC regulation - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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Verizon Communications AT&T Julius Genachowski FCC Public Knowledge

shared by Julian Gottlieb on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Julian Gottlieb on 23 Feb 10
     
    2 large broadband providers are bringing out all the stops to fight open-Internet rules proposed by the FCC Chairman. It would unravel one of Genachowski's key initiatives.
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