Please join MAP on Tuesday, February 7th, 9:30 am-12:30 pm at the Pew DC Conference Center for part two of MAP’s fifth annual Forum Series.
The entire series is free and open to the public. Continental breakfast will be available.
Please RSVP to Mera Szendro Bok at mera@mediaaccess.org
Ben Scott, Policy Advisor for Innovation at the Office [...]

Now that legislation has passed in Congress to lift LPFM licensing restrictions, Prometheus Radio Project and MAP want to make sure that more urban areas will have access to new community radio stations.

Media Access Project is engaging with government agencies and a growing coalition of organizations to develop policy solutions to preserve and protect quality news reporting.

The Internet has emerged as a critical new avenue of free expression — truly becoming an uninhibited marketplace of ideas.
Network neutrality protections would ensure that the Internet remains a platform that supports the public’s First Amendment right to receive, access, and create news and information from a diversity of sources and viewpoints, without discrimination from [...]

Says Decision Protects Consumer Welfare for Cable Subscribers
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided this morning to uphold a Federal Communications Commission ruling that extends “program access” protections. The FCC’s provisions prohibit cable companies from entering into exclusive contracts with cable channels in which the cable company has an ownership stake. The Court decision rejects [...]

From: FMQB
A coalition of public interest organizations – including the Center for Media Justice, Center for Rural Strategies, Free Press, Media Access Project, Media Alliance and many more – have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking that the Commission make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority. [...]

A coalition of public interest organizations sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski yesterday, calling on the Commission to make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority. The groups issued the following joint statement:
“Historically marginalized communities still face countless barriers to their own members’ provision and ownership [...]

WASHINGTON — Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO of Media Access Project (MAP), issued the following statement regarding the petition being filed today with the Federal Communications Commission by cable operators and other groups, asking the agency to reform its retransmission consent process:
“The system is out of balance. Increasingly, broadcasters are demanding that the public [...]

At FCC workshop, panelists outline lack of quantifiable public interest obligations
By John Eggerton,