Federal Communications Commission News

As part of its efforts to develop a National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments about how the e-Rate program can be improved to meet the broadband needs of schools and libraries -- and how it might play a role in delivering or stimulating the adoption of broadband service within communities.

We wrote Monday of Leftist, George Soros-funded "media reform" outfit Free Press, and their extensive relationships with people currently in power at the Federal Communications Commission and in the White House - up to and including President Barack Obama.

The Federal Communications Commission this week asked for suggestions on how to improve E-Rate , the federal program designed to give U.S. schools and libraries access to affordable telecom and Internet services.

Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau chief Bill Lake says the bureau has not yet decided whether or not to grant the Motion Picture Association of America's request for a waiver of the commission's prohibition on selectable output controls on set-top boxes.

Two U.S. lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow money from a huge fund that subsidizes telephone and mobile service to parts of the U.S. to also be used for broadband deployment.

Thirteen public interest groups today said the Federal Communications Commission should not respond to the "whims of industry" and grant the motion picture lobby the ability to control how consumers use their television sets and set-top boxes.

U.S. regulators approve AT&T's bid for Centennial The widely expected move comes three weeks after the U.S. Justice Department approved the deal on the condition that AT&T, the No.

Cases target some of the biggest names in the wireless industry, who in turn have recruited a battery of big-name defense firms Jordan Weissmann The National Law Journal November 06, 2009 In a ruling that has grabbed the attention of the product liability and telecommunications bars, the D.C. Court of Appeals last week revived a series of lawsuits ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it was mulling whether changes are needed to regulations governing access to telephone lines largely controlled by telecom giants.

Belo Corp. Series A filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. BELO CORPORATION is the largest pure-play publicly-traded television station company in the nation.

U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie and the Big Island Press Club have added their voices to Media Council Hawaii in expressing either outright opposition to, or concern about, the combined operation of KGMB-TV and KHNL/KFVE-TV that is now under way.

The Parents Television Council has sent letters to CW affiliates--about 120 in all--asking them to preempt the Nov.

DOT 175-09 DOT News Media Contact: Sasha Johnson, Tel: 366-4570 FCC News Media Contact: Jen Howard, Tel: 418-0506 Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Washington DC U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Wednesday that they are launching a joint effort to evaluate technologies that may help curb the dangerous ...

Smart discussion of the latest science and news on toxins in your food, water, and air, and what government agencies should be doing to protect public health.

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As if the federal government hasn't taken on enough challenges under President Barack Obama, now it's promising to fix all of your Internet problems as well.

Management consultant Yul Kwon used his lawyer skills to win Survivor: Cook Islands in 2006.

The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews.

The Federal Communications Commission has appointed an Internet entrepreneur and journalist to lead an agency effort focused on the state of media.

Academics took aim at the media ownership review process Monday in the first of three workshops at the Federal Communications Commission this week as the agency begins its congressionally mandated quadrennial review of media-ownership rules.