By The Wrap
The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation to determine if Fox made stretched the truth when it applied to renew its license to operate a New Jersey television station in August of 2009.
Fox has 30 days to respond to allegations that it misrepresented the number of hours of [...]

[ June 11, 2010; 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. ]
In June, Media Access Project will launch the third annual MAPPING CHANGE public policy forum series. These events are intended to educate the public and stimulate dialogue among lawmakers and policy experts about cutting edge policy proposals in communications and technology.

This year’s program will build on topics raised in the two former series, to continue to drive debate [...]

Argues that FCC’s failure to force divestiture gives News Corp. “unfair advantage”
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Cablevision got a shout-out Thursday for its argument that Fox was “improperly leveraging” its duopoly in New York, one that was secured through a now-expired FCC waiver.
That was the message from Media Access Project in a [...]

By Jennifer Martinez, Politico
A bill that would allow the Federal Communications Commission to give licenses to more noncommercial, localized radio stations is caught in static.
Despite support from both sides of the aisle, including strong backing from Arizona Sen. John McCain, a group of Republican senators have successfully blocked the bill.
Wyoming Sen. [...]

Bloomberg, Free Press, WGA among the group’s 21 members
Katy Bachman, AdWeek
A group of 21 businesses and public interest organizations has formed The Coalition for Competition in Media to oppose Comcast’s bid to acquire 51 percent of NBC Universal. On its Web site, competitioninmedia.org, the group claims that Comcast’s controlling stake in NBCU would give it “unprecedented [...]

Tyrone Brown, Politico
Echoes of “The Pelican Brief” by John Grisham abound in the Federal Communications Commission’s dispute with communications giants such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast over broadband access “reclassification.”
At issue is whether the agency should be able to set clear and fair policies regarding how these companies transmit data online and allow users to [...]

By Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday described his push to regulate broadband service providers as a middle ground between two difficult choices, each of which is made possible by a court decision that weakened the agency’s ability to oversee companies that provide access to the Web. But critics [...]

By David Lieberman, USA Today
I don’t know how the Federal Communications Commission and others will respond to the U.S. Court of Appeals decision on Tuesday that undercut the FCC’s authority to regulate broadband.
But I’ll go out on a limb with this prediction based on reactions to the ruling— including some that anticipated what the court [...]

Andrew Jay Schwartzman spoke about the future of journalism at a panel discussion held by the Federal Communications Bar Association on March 31.
Watch video here.

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 [...]