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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday unveiled plans to repeal a landmark 2015 order that barred internet service providers from blocking or slowing down consumer access to web content, and said the regulator will prevent states and cities from adopting similar protections. Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, testifies before a Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017.
The proposed AT&T-Time Warner deal is hanging in the balance, but another major media merger appears poised for approval -- though not necessarily on schedule. Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of local television stations in the country, is bidding to become even bigger with a $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media.
Entercom announced a series of agreements in connection with its pending merger with CBS Radio, including: A settlement with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice that will allow Entercom and CBS Radio to move forward with the proposed combination; Asset exchange agreements with iHeartMedia, and Beasley Broadcast in Boston, Seattle, Richmond and Chattanooga; and a Local Marketing Agreements with Bonneville in San Francisco and Sacramento. In connection with these agreements, Entercom now expects its proposed combination with CBS Radio to close as early as November 17, pending approval from the Federal Communications Commission.
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to vote in November on proposals to roll back ownership rules that were meant to support diverse voices in local media. The newspaper and broadcasting industries have pushed for changes to the rules as they face growing online competition.
This July 13, 2014 file photo shows Seth Meyers in Beverly Hills, Calif. On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, Myers, who has been among the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, tweeted that he'd "love" to have Trump on his NBC show, in response to one of his messages.
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Approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949, this rule insisted that because the airwaves belong to all of us, every TV and radio broadcast licensee must "devote a reasonable portion of broadcast time to the discussion and consideration of controversial issues of public importance," and allow "the expression of contrasting viewpoints." Translation: When you present points of view from the right on your station, it behooves you to also present views from the left - and others - so that everyone's opinion gets a fair shake.
Activists and internet companies are protesting Wednesday a proposed quash of net neutrality protections by the FCC. Here's what the likes of Amazon, Netflix and internet users say would happen to your internet access with the rollback.
DSL Reports: The Federal Communications Commission on Friday quietly approved the transfer of seven major television station licenses owned by Bluestone Television/Bonten Media to Sinclair Broadcast Group -- without informing the agency's sole Democratic commissioner, Mignon Clyburn. ... [FCC chairman Ajit] Pai has long opposed media ownership and consolidation limits, and unsurprisingly has made letting these companies grow immensely larger his top agency priority.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he planned to nominate a Federal Communications Commission attorney to fill one of two vacant seats at the nation's telecommunications regulatory agency. The White House said Trump would name Brendan Carr, a Republican who previously served as an adviser to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, to an open seat.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it would not take any action over thousands of complaints about a crude joke that late-night television host Stephen Colbert told about U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin. The oral sex joke was bleeped before the airing of the May 1 episode of CBS Corp's "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," FCC spokesman Neil Grace said the agency had reviewed the complaints and "concluded that there was nothing actionable under the FCC's rules."
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley Friday strongly criticized Federal Communications Commission security guards who manhandled a reporter Thursday at the agency's headquarters. "The Federal Communications Commission needs to take a hard look at why this happened and make sure it doesn't happen again," Grassley said in his Friday statement.
The stories from its May edition of WasteWatcher are listed in part as follows: Setting the Internet Free By Deborah Collier On May 18, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission voted by a 2-1 margin to open a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Restoring Internet Freedom. Full story here .
A federal court will rehear a case brought by AT&T against the Federal Trade Commission, after it ruled last year that the agency does not have authority over telecommunications companies. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Northern District of California said it will rehear the case before a full panel of judges.
Don't listen to the telecom lobby. Congress' vote to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules has a profound impact on your online privacy rights.
Sen. Mike Lee introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules. "Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet," Lee said in a statement.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, meets with reporters and members of the editorial board at the Deseret News and KSL in Salt Lake City, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Lee wants President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval before taking any humanitarian military action.
" "Net neutrality" regulations, designed to prevent internet service providers like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter from favoring some sites and apps over others, are on the chopping block. The head of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, on Wednesday proposed undoing the Obama-era rules that have been in place since 2015.
Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is set to release a plan Wednesday to roll back the government's net neutrality rules, setting the stage for another major showdown between tech companies and Internet service providers over the future of the Web. Pai is expected to outline his proposal in an afternoon speech at the Newseum, and formally could deliver the plan to his fellow commissioners later this week.
A top US regulator moved Monday to roll back efforts to allow cellphone use in aircraft, reversing course on relaxing a long-standing ban on in-flight calls. Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said he circulated a order, which would require a vote of the commissioners, to "terminate" a 2013 rule-making effort.