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A coalition of public interest groups spearheaded by Media Access Project and the Institute for Public Representation is arguing that the FCC’s move to relax newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership restrictions under former Chairman Kevin Martin flies in the face of the FCC directive to increase ownership diversity and should be scrapped.
The [...]

WASHINGTON – Media Access Project (MAP) Associate Director Matt Wood issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement of the Federal Communications Commission’s 14th annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report:
“We look forward to reviewing the full report, especially any sections discussing barriers to wireless provider entry and growth, as well as those reporting [...]

MAP and its allies have long argued that, while we are certainly experiencing fundamental changes in the economics of journalism, a good portion of newspapers’ problems have been self-inflicted.  This German analysis tends to support that hypothesis.
For U.S. Newspaper Industry, an Example in Germany?
PARIS – When German researchers cast their critical gaze over debt-ridden institutions, [...]

Here is a useful reminder that the tension over separating content from conduit is not new, even if it is now very, very important.  Think about what the networked world would look like today if AT&T had been a little more foresighted.
Net neutrality: Old issues never die
In the early 1970s while working on the [...]

In comments to be submitted to the Federal Communications Commission today, Media Access Project (MAP) supported proposed reforms to the Commission’s retransmission consent rules – the regulations that govern negotiations between broadcasters and entities that retransmit broadcast signals, such as cable operators, satellite providers, and telco video services such as FiOS.
In the filing, MAP asked [...]

About 10 days ago, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued a disturbing, and very important opinion authorizing filmmakers to have remote control access to set top boxes in American homes.  There will be an appeal to the full FCC, so this fight isn’t over, but it has tremendous potential to disrupt the intellectual property balance in [...]

Deadline for briefs in Third Circuit Court’s hearing arrives
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasters and media consolidation opponents weighed in Monday (May 17) with an earful for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on the FCC’s 2007 media ownership rule revise. Both sides could agree on one thing: the FCC’s decision was [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP), the Institute for Public Representation (IPR), and a coalition of public interest organizations including Free Press filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today, stating that the Federal Communications Commission’s 2008 decision to significantly weaken its media ownership rules was unreasonable and against [...]

It is a sad testament to the inadequacies of FCC regulatory policy over the last decade that the best data on telephone usage comes not from the FCC, but from the Centers for Disease Control, which cares about how people can respond to household emergencies.  The latest CDC report is extremely interesting, but RoadMAP doesn’t [...]

A year and a half into the Obama administration, we are now about to see how vigorous the FTC and Department of Justice intend to be with respect to technology mergers.  The Google/Ad Mob transaction is going to be an important bellweather.  Those of us hoping for an aggressive stance  with respect to the Comcast/NBC [...]