... continues, one really has to question whether he's going to remain in this post. JEFFREY BROWN: So, what does happen next? I know the FCC is conducting an investigation. Congress has talked about looking into this. What do we look for the next? STEPHEN SCHURR: What we're looking ...
TERENCE SMITH: Well, what's the answer to that, Congressman? REP. FRED UPTON: Let's look at the real facts here, and that is when you read what the FCC has fined the broadcasters for, most of it radio -- a few TV, as we saw with the halftime show this ...
As part of the agreement, the FCC cleared the company of all other pending investigations and complaints for alleged decency violations, according to a commission press release. In addition to the $1.75 million payment, Clear Channel admitted some of the material broadcast on its radio stations violated federal decency ...
... you know. I know that. But, I'm offended by it. TERENCE SMITH: Would you have the industry regulate itself or would you have the FCC do it? DON HEWITT: If the industry -- I think the industry is beginning to realize that they've got to pull back a little ...
... that FCC officials said could obstruct its passage. The Senate's bill includes provisions to put on hold sweeping media ownership changes adopted by the FCC last year and orders the FCC to study ways to protect children from violence on television. Several FCC attorneys told the AP Thursday that ...
... spectrum ownership, which have inhibited mergers in the past are going to be an issue at all because those barriers have been removed by the FCC by a previous ruling. RAY SUAREZ: Quickly, what about the other companies in this business, do they start looking for merger or acquisition targets ...
... details but they know, they just sense that it's not a good thing and it has certainly reflected itself since last June when the FCC repealed its broadcast media rules, so Congress -- JIM LEHRER: There was a great public outcry about that. ANDREW SCHWARTZMAN: Absolutely. So, Congress might well ...
... problem, we believe, is the current vagueness of how indecency is defined, and it's exasperated by the lack of clear policy direction from the FCC. Is the standard in Las Vegas the same standard that's appropriate in Salt Lake City? TOM BEARDEN: As for the NFL's role ...
... Alaska, had attached a rider to the appropriations bill that would effectively keep the national cap at 35 percent by budgeting no funding for the FCC to implement the new regulation. But the White House had threatened to veto any legislation that contained language to undo the FCC rules. In ...
The Republican-dominated FCC voted along party lines, 3-2, to allow News Corp. to acquire a controlling 34 percent in DirecTV's parent company, Hughes Electronics Corp., a subsidiary of General Motors, for $6.6 billion. Following the FCC's approval, announced after the market closed Friday, the Justice ...
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