FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5861
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today granted the government’s petition for certiorari challenging a lower court decision which held that the Federal Communications Commission’s policies on broadcast “indecency” violated the First Amendment.
Media Access Project (MAP) represents the Center for Creative Voices in Media and the [...]

MAP’s  comments in reply to the FCC’s NPRM regarding retransmission can be viewed here

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today invalidated a California statute that prohibits the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, in a case entitled Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.
Media Access Project (MAP) filed an amici curiae brief in the case on behalf [...]

The following is the Reply  in the applications for assignment of control of T-Mobile USA to AT&T Mobility.  Read the full Reply

In the matter of Amendment of the Commission’s ExParte Rules and other Procedural Rules, Media Access Project responds with the following comments.

By John Eggerton — Multichannel News
As promised, Bloomberg has officially asked the FCC to require Comcast to move Bloomberg Television into “existing news neighborhoods” on its systems, saying that not to do so violates a condition in the FCC’s order approving the NBCU deal.
In a complaint filed early Monday, Bloomberg said [...]

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. [...]

For Immediate Release
June 9, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON –   The FCC’s long-awaited staff report on the future of media “appears to contain a sound diagnosis but falls short on recommendations for treatment,” according to Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director [...]

The following is the Petition to Deny the applications for assignment of control of T-Mobile USA to AT&T Mobility.  Media Access Project filed the petition on May 31, 2011 with the Federal Communications Commission on behalf of the Center for Media Justice, Consumers Union, New America [...]

By Todd Shield & Greg Bensinger, Bloomberg
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) asked regulators to deny AT&T Inc. (T)’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the $39 billion deal would decrease competition and raise consumer prices.
“AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile must be blocked,” Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier, said in comments filed today at the Federal Communications [...]