Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Open Technology Initiative of the New America Foundation filed a Brief Amici Curiae with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, in support of ivi Inc.’s fight under the Copyright Law of the United States to retransmit online the signals of over-the-air television [...]

Study argues proposal will do nothing to spur retail market in set-tops
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
The Phoenix Center argues in a new paper that the FCC’s AllVid proposal may “do more harm than good.”
The FCC has proposed shoring up the CableCARD regime in the near term and spurring the creation of a universal gateway [...]

Media Access Project, Free Press and others call for action on WNYW, WWOR renewal challenges
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Media Access Project, Free Presss, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the United Church of Christ sent a letter to the FCC Tuesday (Dec. 7) calling for action on their long-standing challenge to the license renewals of Fox’s [...]

Media Access Project, the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University, the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ, Inc. (“UCC”), Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and Free Press wrote a letter to the FCC today, urging Commissioners to engage in prompt action on the long-pending matter of the renewal of the licenses of two television [...]

A Stamford woman soon may represent all Connecticut Cablevision customers in a lawsuit seeking rebates for programming lost during two weeks in October.
Dorothy Rabsey is a plaintiff in a class-action suit against Cablevision that seeks the cost of one month of service, which averages $150, for each of the 3 million subscribers in Connecticut, New [...]

WASHINGTON – National civil rights, human rights, consumer, and labor organizations sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission today, urging the agency to adopt a “legally justifiable regulatory framework” so that it may accomplish the goals of its National Broadband Plan.
Tyrone Brown, former FCC Commissioner and President of Media Access Project, issued [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today, complaining that Fox’s failure to comply with FCC ownership rules is giving it an unfair advantage in its dispute with Cablevision over TV program carriage in the New York market.
Fox has failed to comply with [...]

By Juliana Gruenwald, National Journal

The FCC approved an order this week requiring the satellite radio provider Sirius-XM to set aside at least 4 percent of its channels on the company’s Sirius and XM services for independent programming.
The order, adopted Monday, is part of the ongoing conditions set by [...]

Staff, Friday Morning Quarterback
The FCC has set the rules for Sirius XM to lease part of its spectrum to minority broadcasters, which was a condition of the satcaster merger in 2008. The company has offered to lease four percent of its channels to minority broadcasters, making up six Sirius channels and six XM channels. The [...]