by Jeff Jeffrey, Legal Times
Former Federal Communications Commissioner Tyrone Brown has agreed to join the Media Access Project as president after nearly two decades at Wiley Rein and several telecommunications start-ups.
On April 1, Brown will succeed longtime MAP president Jay Schwartzman, who will remain at the nonprofit public interest communications law firm as senior vice [...]

By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post
Public interest group Media Access Project said Wednesday that it has appointed former FCC commissioner Tyrone Brown to lead the organization.
Brown, an attorney at the Wiley Rein law firm, will take over as chief executive, succeeding Andrew Schwartzman, who will stay on as senior vice president and policy director.
Schwartzman said [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP) announced today that on April 1, Tyrone Brown, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and an entrepreneurial attorney, will succeed Andrew Jay Schwartzman as President of MAP, the nonprofit, public interest communications law firm. Schwartzman, who has headed MAP for three decades, will continue as Senior Vice [...]

By Joelle Tessler, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has at least temporarily lifted government rules that blocked media companies from owning a newspaper and a broadcast TV station in the same market.
The decision Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit lifts the Federal Communications Commission’s “cross-ownership” ban.
That restriction had [...]

Nielsen reports on what increasingly looks like an important trend: TV viewing is UP because more and more users are multitasking.
Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago
Americans increased their overall media usage and media multitasking according to The Nielsen Company’s latest Three Screen Report, which tracks consumption [...]

With Other Deadlines, MAP Needs More Time To Line Up Its ‘Peacocks’ In A Row
John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Media Access Project has asked the Federal Communications Commission to extend its deadlines for petitions to deny, comments and reply comments on the proposed Comcast/NBC Universal merger.
The group says that the combination of its focus on the [...]

Implementing the commission’s National Broadband Plan raises more questions than answers
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC unveiled its longawaited National Broadband Plan last week, prompting one big operative question: What now?
The plan’s “ta-daaa!” factor had already died the death of a thousand working recommendation previews over the previous several weeks. With no action items [...]

A War With Many Fronts Opens Over The FCC’s Massive New Plan
by Eliza Newlin Carney, National Journal Online
For all the praise that has greeted the Federal Communications Commission’s blueprint for a wired nation, the recently released National Broadband Plan sets up an inevitable clash of telecommunications lobbying titans.
Mandated by last year’s economic stimulus bill, the [...]

RoadMAP is stretching its one item rule this morning by presenting two dueling blog posts on the future of television. Not surprisingly, the CEO of Boxee thinks the future is “over the top” video delivered over the Internet; after all, that is what Boxee’s technology delivers. Mark Cuban, who does not seem to [...]

This would have been a great idea five years ago, but it is merely an inevitability today.
Universal Music Group is cutting the price of its CD’s to $10. The music industry stands as the paradigmatic example of an industry that has misjudged changing technology time after time. It treated online distribution as a [...]