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kkholland

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

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    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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    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.
Julian Gottlieb

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

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    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.
chris_seaman

FCC Defends Crossownership Stay - 2010-01-07 23:03:59 | Broadcasting & Cable - 0 views

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    The FCC says it will uphold the lifting of the partial ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership until new decisions by new commissioners are put in place.
chris_seaman

Business Daily - Media owners lock horns with CCK over law - 0 views

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    The Communication Commission of Kenya and Media Owners Association are currently fighting over the enforcement of new clausees restricting media cross ownership in Kenya
kkholland

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

  • "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."
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    "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."
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    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.
Ethan Hartsell

Online music piracy 'destroys local music' - 1 views

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    Local musicians in countries like Spain, which does not regulate the downloading of music and movies, are really hurting. Such countries run the risk of becoming "cultural deserts," because the only reason people make music is the money.
Ethan Hartsell

Standing Up for Internet Freedom - 0 views

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    Here's John Kerry's take on the China/Google debate.
kkholland

Comcast Gives Hulu a Promise Ring Despite Lining Up Alternatives | The Big Money - 0 views

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    Discussion of COMCAST's TV Everywhere program, in light of its current review over a deal with NBC.
chris_seaman

Verizon ends service of alleged illegal downloaders | Digital Media - CNET News - 0 views

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    Discusses Verizon's recent role in policing copyright infringement by terminating the internet service to suspected file sharers.
Ron Rice

Well Connected - The Center for Public Integrity - 0 views

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    provides list of media for each zip code; provides reports and media policy issues updates and analyses
Theresa de los Santos

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

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    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.
Ethan Hartsell

Fox Files More Suits Claiming DVD Piracy - 0 views

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    "Escalating its efforts to crack down on DVD piracy, Twentieth Century Fox on Thursday filed six lawsuits against several dozen people that the company said had sold DVDs containing an unfinished version of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and other counterfeit Fox titles."
Theresa de los Santos

Digital Rights Group Pushes FCC to Protect Net Neutrality - PC World - 0 views

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    The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging the FCC to close a Net neutrality "loophole" that would require ISPs "to act as copyright cops."
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