Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:23pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:24pm
Recommendation:
3
Several Internet service providers are moving to curb the growth of traffic on their networks -- or at least make the subscribers who download the most pay more. This could have consequences not just for consumers -- who would have to learn to watch how much data their Internet use entails -- but also for companies that hope to make the Internet a conduit for movies and other content that comes in huge files.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:23pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:23pm
Recommendation:
2
Fox Broadcasting said on Monday that it would not pay fines totaling $91,000 for broadcasting a reality show episode that included graphic sexual scenes at a bachelor party. Fox is also asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the fines on the 13 owned and affiliated stations that broadcast the "Married by America" episode.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:21pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:22pm
As the September 8 date approaches for Wilmington (NC) broadcasters to shut off their analog signals, station managers there have decided to conduct a second pre-test to make sure the message is getting out to viewers.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:20pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:20pm
The Federal Communications Commission has given itself another 60 days to decide on Time Warner's petition to review the cable company's loss to regional sports network Mid-Atlantic Sports Network in arbitration over a carriage complaint.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:19pm
Last updated: September 3, 2008 - 3:46pm
Recommendation:
3
According to the Federal Communications Commission, 97% of broadcasters are either on the air with their digital signal at full power or will be by Feb. 17, 2009, the Congressionally-mandated date for the cut-off of full-power analog.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:18pm
Last updated: September 3, 2008 - 5:10pm
Recommendation:
4
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission approved a waiver to its must-carry rules for certain smaller cable operators, under which those operators will not be required to retransmit digital broadcast signals for three years after next February's transition by full-power TV stations to all-digital broadcasts, according to the American Cable Association.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:17pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:18pm
Recommendation:
4
If Barack Obama is elected president this fall, come January, he will likely name one of the two sitting Democratic FCC commissioners to replace temporarily the outgoing Republican Kevin Martin as chairman of the agency.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:16pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:17pm
Recommendation:
2
The Department of Justice has rejected Sinclair Broadcast's planned $85 million purchase of WTVR Richmond (VA) from Raycom Media. According to Sinclair, the DOJ acted pursuant to a consent decree that Raycom entered into with the DOJ when it purchased three stations from Lincoln Financial earlier this year.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:16pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:16pm
Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell announced that Rosemary Harold will be joining his staff as Legal Advisor for media issues. Harold has worked at the Commission since December 2005, most recently as Deputy Chief of the FCC's Media Bureau.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:15pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:15pm
Recommendation:
1
The Federal Communications Commission's "forbearance" follies continued this week, provoking the ire of the agency's two Democrats. They want to know why the FCC took a full year to deny the bare bones petition of a South Dakota based telco that probably wanted permission to raise its connection rates.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:14pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:14pm
Recommendation:
2
As the Democrats and Republicans gather at their national conventions, it is time to really think about a comprehensive national technology policy for the Internet Age. Many laws and policies governing the Internet and digital property are inadequate attempts to transplant rules from a different era.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:13pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:13pm
Recommendation:
2
The Federal Communications Commission is beholden to media conglomerates to the exclusion of minority- and women-owned media companies, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in Denver. "I think we've really fallen down on the job in the last eight years," Adelstein said at a Symposium on Media and Democracy sponsored by Common Cause.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:12pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:12pm
A handful of education and education technology associations launched a print and radio public service announcement campaign on Wednesday themed "One Giant Leap for Kids" that asks the presidential candidates to make K-12 student access to ed-tech and modern learning environments a top national priority.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:11pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:12pm
Recommendation:
2
Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt blasted presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain at a Tuesday forum in Denver, saying it is "a gross understatement" to state that the Arizona senator "doesn't get it" when it comes to crafting technology policies that will help advance U.S.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:10pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:10pm
Recommendation:
3
Last November, hundreds of government, industry leaders and Internet activists from around the planet gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the second Internet Governance Forum. Attendees were invited to complete an online survey about their views of the role of the Internet around the world and how about how governments and other regulators should structure policy about the Internet.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:09pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:10pm
US companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found. Thirty percent overall reported that third-quarter IT spending was lower than previously planned, an increase of three percentage points since ChangeWave's May spending survey.
Submitted: August 28, 2008 - 12:08pm
Last updated: August 28, 2008 - 12:09pm
Recommendation:
3
Bowing to requests from wireless carriers, the Federal Communications Commission has agreed to postpone its plans to move forward with a controversial initiative to create a family-friendly network that would provide free Internet access to nearly all Americans.
Submitted: August 22, 2008 - 8:36am
Last updated: August 22, 2008 - 8:37am
Recommendation:
3
"The [broadband] market is as competitive as it is ever going to be, as far as we can see. And it could become less competitive."
-- Blair Levin, Stifel Nicolaus
