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The Federal Communications Commission is responsible for making rules to facilitate the upcoming transition to digital-only television broadcasting, enforcing those rules to protect consumers, and promoting awareness of the transition through direct to consumer education and other outreach tools including media relations.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has added Eric Bridges of the American Council of the Blind to the FCC's Consumer Advisory Committee.

The man who tried to soar above politics has been brought back to earth by the same media organizations that helped fuel his spectacular rise. After more than a year of mostly glowing coverage, Barack Obama is having to defend his relationship with the Rev.

In the wake of adopting an interim cap on payments to competitive eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) under the Universal Service Fund (Fund), the Federal Communications Commission says it has taken a crucial first step toward comprehensive reform of Universal Service and intercarrier compensation, two carrier compensation regimes that are directly interrelated.

On Tuesday, the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (HR 5353), which could put some more teeth in the Federal Communications Commission's guidelines on network nondiscrimination, the issue that prompted the Network Neutrality and, more recently, network-management debates.

Yahoo faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft after the software maker walked away over a major disagreement on price.

A Q&A with Republican Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Robert McDowell. He concedes he has differed from FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on a number of issues lately, but his divergent points of view on some issues don't indicate a larger rift between the two.

The Federal Communications Commission's proposals for increasing public interest reporting requirements and other steps to promote broadcast localism have drawn a flood of comments from understandably worried broadcasters. But they have also revealed a potential new battleground in this issue: a schism between religious groups.

The American Cable Association, the lobbying organization for small and mid-sized cable operators, again asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny News Corp.'s effort to get out from under conditions the FCC put on the company when it bought DirecTV.