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... Federal Communications Commission launches new initiatives aimed at encouraging companies to expand high-speed and wireless coverage across the country. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC, joins him to discuss how the new proposals will accelerate access to broadband. All that, plus the rest of the day's news as ...
... and “UP,” just because the animation was stunning in a very different way than, say, James Cameron’s “Avatar” will be. Music: DJ Tiesto and FC/Kahuna It’s been a year of unabashed surfing and discovery thanks to Pandora (though I’ve been told I need to switch to ...
... of thing? What do you -- what do you see going forward in terms of the regulatory process here and those concerns? ANDREW LECKEY: Well, the FCC right now, it wants to prove that it's not a rubber stamp. This is the Obama administration. It wants to prove it's ...
JEFFREY BROWN: The nation's conversion to digital TV will be complete by 12:01 tomorrow morning. At a recent press conference, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein was relieved the end was in sight. JONATHAN ADELSTEIN, commissioner, Federal Communications Commission: If the DTV transition were a NASCAR race, six months ago ...
... 190 stations have already cut their analog signals.The 491 stations notified the Federal Communications Commission last week of their decision.Of those notifications, the FCC responded that it would not let 106 stations switch on Feb. 17. Stations still desiring to turn off analog signals would able to do ...
... Carter Phillips said the prospect of fines under the policy could discourage networks from airing live entertainment or sports events. Government attorneys, however, say the FCC should be able to squelch the foul language on TV and that FCC punishments factor in the context of the potentially offensive remarks. The ...
... it may not be possible to block unfortunate fleeting material, despite best efforts," the network said in a statement Monday.The court found that the FCC deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so "pervasive as to amount to 'shock treatment ...
The airwaves currently carry television UHF channels 52 to 69. Those might be second-rate properties on analog television, but they're prime real estate in the wireless world -- likened by the FCC to "beachfront property" from which providers will be able to develop nationwide, high-speed Internet products. With ...
... deliberate, repeated utterance of profanities constituted indecency. The court has not yet ruled on whether one-time occurrences of an expletive could be subject to FCC fines. Fox, along with ABC, NBC and CBS have opposed the FCC regulations, arguing that it represents an unwarranted and sudden shift in policy ...
... practice. I have ridden on many airplanes. And since then, the rules have been changed with something I supported.On the, quote, "letters to the FCC," interestingly, this was brought up in the year 2000 by the New York Times. I wrote a letter because the FCC, which usually makes ...
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