By Kim Masters, Hollywood Reporter
In the desperate hours of early January, with chatter spreading that the White House was poised to make a devastating statement opposing parts of proposed anti-piracy legislation that Hollywood studios considered key to the industry’s very survival, MPAA president Christopher Dodd made a phone call to DreamWorks Animation [...]

Please join us on Tuesday, February 7th, 9:30 am-12:30 pm 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
The Global Internet and the Free Flow of Information:
Events throughout the world have highlighted the role [...]

By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer
Falls Church, Virginia (CNN) — It’s a Tuesday night at Nell and Matt Dillard’s suburban Washington home, and the family of four is watching “Glee,” a scripted Fox television program.
Ninety seconds into the comedy, one of the teenage female characters makes mention of Asian men and [...]

By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Zachary Katz, chief counsel to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, has been named chief of staff, succeeding Eddie Lazarus.  Sherrese Smith, currently senior counsel and legal advisor for media issues, will succeed Katz as chief counsel.
That was the lead on a number of changes to the chairman’s staff [...]

For Immediate Release
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Andrew Jay Schwartzman
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Washington, D.C- Zachary Katz has been appointed to Chief of Staff at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Zachary has been working at the FCC since 2009. Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project today issued the following statement in [...]

By Brendan Sasso, The Hill
With Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) blocking President Obama’s two nominees to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the five-member board is set to begin the new year with the bare minimum of members needed to take official action.
The FCC has been operating with four commissioners since Meredith Attwell [...]

By Katy Bachman, Adweek
Proposal codifies newspaper-TV combos held by Tribune and News Corp.
Once again, the Federal Communications Commission decided to move forward a major regulatory rule just before holidays. Last year at this time, Chairman Julius Genachowski annoyed GOP lawmakers and even some of his fellow commissioners with the vote to pass [...]

by John Eggerton,Broadcasting & Cable
Call it deja vu of Martin FCC and ‘loophole-ridden scheme.’ But FCC does get props for looking into SSA’s

Reaction was swift to the FCC’s announcement it had voted the media ownership item Thursday, in part because those responses had been teed up for hours, with the FCC initially trying [...]

By Joan Engebretson, Connected Planet
A coalition promoting the need for special access reform led by competitive local exchange carrier association Comptel is getting some serious attention from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court this week issued an order asking for additional materials from the coalition, from the FCC and [...]

Katie Bachman, Adweek
Now that the Obama Administration has successfully shut down the AT&T-T-Mobile merger, it is setting its sights on Verizon Wireless’ recent spectrum and joint venture deals with cable companies. According to a Bloomberg report, the Department of Justice is reportedly looking at whether the joint venture arrangement Verizon [...]