Online Video: Incumbent Providers Meet a Disruptive New Technology
Held on Friday, November 19, 2010, at Dickstein Shapiro, Washington D.C.

Emerging online technologies are expanding consumer choice in the delivery of video content, potentially challenging over-the-air, cable, and satellite modes of commercial video distribution. Services such as Hulu, Netflix, Boxee, and YouTube give [...]

[ March 11, 2011; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Friday, March 11, 2011
10:00 am – 2:00 pm (breakfast begins at 9:30 am)
Dickstein Shapiro Conference Center
1825 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC.
The Federal Communications Commission is exploring whether to free up portions of radio frequency spectrum, currently licensed to television broadcasters, to expand spectrum availability for use by wireless broadband technologies. The Commission [...]

MAP and several of its colleagues in the public interest community have called upon the FCC to take a hard look at the dispute between Internet backbone provider Level 3 and Comcast. This matter has been hotly disputed, but poorly reported. Admittedly, it is also very confusing. Ars Technica has provided a [...]

Court hears arguments in fight over FCC regulations
By Katy Bachman, AdWeek
The Prometheus Radio Project was back in court Thursday, hoping to convince a panel of three federal judges to crank-up the way back machine and reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to loosen the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership.
The cross-ownership rule, which dates back to 1975—before [...]

Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker has a nifty essay on the literature of the Internet. He classifies writers into three classes: the optimistic “Never Betters” like Clay Shirky, the world-weary “Ever Wasers” like Ann Blair, and the naysaying “Better-Nevers” like William Powers.
How the Internet Gets Inside Us
When the first Harry Potter book appeared, [...]

Media Access Project, New America Foundation, Free Press, and Public Knowledge today filed an opposition to documents submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association regarding the FCC’s transparency requirements for white space spectrum databases.
The groups asked the FCC to ignore NCTA’s request for more limited data collection and transparency [...]

Panel Seemed To Have Trouble With Decision From Both Ends
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Broadcasters may be looking for regulatory clarity on media ownership rules, but if one attorney and a second observer in the courtroom were any indication, it has yet to get any signals of judicial certainty.
The three-judge panel hearing oral [...]

RoadMAP doesn’t like the fact that its favorite radio show, “On The Media,” is carried at 6am on Saturday on WAMU-FM, the DC area NPR station. Rather than listening live, RoadMAP is forced to obtain the show via the Internet. It is often worth the effort, but especially so this week. Hosts [...]

Argument being held Thursday in Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Media Access Project’s Andrew Schwartzman will argue for the Prometheus Radio Project in this week’s oral argument on the FCC’s 2007 media ownership rule change.
Argument is being held tomorrow (Feb. 24) in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]

February 23, 2011
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
What: Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, will present oral argument at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the case entitled Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC, addressing the Federal Communications Commission’s media ownership rules.
When: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
Where: [...]