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    House Considers Changes to Media-Ownership Rules

    Dec 05, 2007 11:45 PM EST

    ... ending the longstanding ban on one company owning both a newspaper and broadcast station in the same market. So when he and the four other FCC commissioners came before a House commerce panel today to discuss the plan, everyone expected a heated debate.REP. JOHN DINGELL (D), Michigan: The FCC ...

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    Burns Film Examines World War Two Through American Towns

    Sep 21, 2007 10:45 PM EST

    ... to tell us that the Japanese couldn't see very far, but they could see far enough to kill you.JEFFREY BROWN: Also, fearing potential FCC sanctions due to the graphic nature of the language in the film, PBS is offering stations a version that cuts out several uses of ...

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    ATT Proposes BellSouth Buyout

    Mar 06, 2006 05:00 AM EST

    ... to have hundreds of different players. But if you look at the wireless market, where we had, from after the auctions in 1994 where the FCC essentially helped create a number of new wireless players so that we got to about six or seven in a lot of different markets ...

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    Pay for On-air Play

    Jul 26, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... where the New York state attorney general was going after a big record label, but radio stations are regulated by the federal government. Is the FCC interested? Has the FCC been enforcing these laws? CHRIS STERLING: In the last ten years the FCC has issued one fine on payola for ...

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    Republicans Hail Supreme Court Nominee; Democrats Cautious

    Jul 20, 2005 05:00 PM EST

    ... traditional telephone service rules, such as requirements to lease network access to rivals. Telephone companies, which also offer Internet services, have long complained that the FCC requirement to lease some of their high-speed Internet lines to rivals puts them at a competitive disadvantage to cable companies, Reuters reported. Cable ...

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    Court Rules on Internet File-Sharing, High-Speed Lines

    Jun 27, 2005 07:00 PM EST

    ... traditional telephone service rules, such as requirements to lease network access to rivals. Telephone companies, which also offer Internet services, have long complained that the FCC requirement to lease some of their high-speed Internet lines to rivals puts them at a competitive disadvantage to cable companies, Reuters reported. Cable ...

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    Text of Downing Street Memo

    Jun 16, 2005 06:08 PM EST

    ... Scarlett would send the Prime Minister a full intelligence update. (f) We must not ignore the legal issues: the Attorney-General would consider legal advice with FCO/MOD legal advisers. (I have written separately to commission this follow-up work.) MATTHEW RYCROFT (Rycroft was a Downing Street foreign policy aide)

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    Senate Debates Government

    May 13, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... origin of VNRs produced by the government or by corporations. It set up a public comment period on its order to last through mid-July. FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein: JONATHAN ADELSTEIN: It's very important that the public know if the government is behind something. In the case of political ...

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    U.S. Broadcast Industry

    May 04, 2005 06:27 PM EST

    ... NBC's market dominance through CBS' 47 radio stations and popular programs, such as the Bing Crosby Show. Concerned over a monopolization of radio, the FCC in 1941 released the "Report on Chain Broadcasting," criticizing the rise of broadcast networks and recommended that NBC divest itself of one of its ...

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    Satellite Radio's Two-Way Competition Takes Aim at Broadcast Radio

    Mar 30, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    ... charges over the years, and he says he looks forward to his new home on satellite radio where the content is not regulated by the FCC. HOWARD STERN: I have millions of dollars of fines against me and this my way of checkmating the United States Government and saying, "You ...