By John Eggerton, Multichannel News
Reply comments are due Monday, June 27 on the FCC’s retransmission-consent rule review.
The comments will mostly be restating initial objections, support and suggestions for the FCC’s planned tweaking of its rules on broadcast/cable negotiations of payment over station signal carriage, as well as replying to the arguments [...]

The Federal Communications Commission can require cable-television companies to share more sports programming with satellite and phone competitors, a court ruled in a challenge brought by Cablevision Systems Corp.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today upheld a ruling by the FCC in January 2010 that companies such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. [...]

By Michael Hiltzik, LA Times
No political adage gets a more vigorous workout than the one about how the real scandal in Washington isn’t what’s illegal, but what’s legal.
Case in point: Meredith Attwell Baker’s announcement that she will be stepping down as a Federal Communications Commission member in June to join Comcast-NBCUniversal.
Baker’s [...]

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News

The news that Michael Powell would be taking over for Kyle McSlarrow atop the National Cable & Telecommunications Association drew quick and generally positive responses, including from some on the other side of the ideological fence.
“The American Cable Association congratulates former Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael [...]

March 15, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
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WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced that Michael Powell, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman, will assume the role of NCTA President. Powell takes over the association’s leadership from Kyle McSlarrow, who recently joined Comcast as president of its Washington [...]

March 9, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
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WASHINGTON – The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today voted to pass a Resolution of Disapproval that seeks to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2010 open Internet rules.
The following statement can be attributed to Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President [...]

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 [...]

By Sara Jerome, The Hill

The Media Access Project (MAP), a staunch net-neutrality proponent, wants the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) to include “open Internet” rules in its effort to overhaul the Universal Service Fund, which is devoted to subsidizing telecom services in underserved areas.
MAP said in a document filed with the commission [...]

Industry’s biggest names take on upstart online service ivi TV
By Katy Bachman, AdWeek
Ivi TV, an upstart online pay TV service that’s become a target of some of television’s biggest powers—everyone from the major networks to Major League Baseball and even PBS—will get its day in court on Wednesday.
Founded in 2007, ivi TV is the brainchild [...]

PK, MAP file amicus brief
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

In an unusual move, public interest groups have filed a ‘friend of the court’ brief in district court supporting ivi TV’s streaming of TV station signals without paying broadcasters any retrans fees.
Major broadcast groups including the network-owned stations have sought an injunction [...]