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As the Federal Communications Commission continues to consider whether or not to allow XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, the nation's two satellite-radio companies, to become one, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Free Press, called the merger a "roadmap to monopoly" and asked the FCC to throw up its own roadblock after the Justice Department gave the deal a green light.

Cablevision’s $650 million purchase of Long Island (NY) newspaper Newsday shouldn't face high regulatory hurdles in Washington, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Blair Levin. “As best we can determine, the Federal Communications Commission would have no jurisdiction to directly review the transaction because there do not appear to be any communications licenses that would have to be transferred and require regulatory approval," he wrote to clients.

Getting Hollywood actors paid for their smallest performances -- video clips on the Internet -- is shaping up as one their biggest sticking points in stalemated contract negotiations with major studios.

Tribune Company is at the brink of a deal to sell its Long Island newspaper Newsday to Cablevision Systems Corp. for $650 million in a deal to that will help relieve Tribune's debt.

One year ago, when he was still a deputy White House chief of staff in the Bush administration, Karl Rove was more likely than not ducking news organizations. Now, he has joined them, as an analyst for Fox News and a contributor to Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.

The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied a request from owners of thousands of low-power television stations to force a ban on government-subsidized converter boxes that can't display their signals.

A TV industry trying its best to keep up with nimble new-media competitors may have an expensive new albatross to deal with: the Federal Communications Commission’s series of proposals to promote localism.

After the writers' strike was settled in February, television broadcasters resolved to rethink how the coming upfront week would proceed. The networks are ordering far fewer pilots, test episodes of new series that are expensive to produce.