... the business wisdom of it? TOM WOLZIEN: In this case I did because Viacom is right now one of the two principle beneficiaries of the FCC's most recent decisions to allow an expansion of television station ownership -- News Corp being the other -- and that FCC decision is currently under ...
... incitements to violence. But when you have a limited spectrum, a limited amount of airwaves you really need to have a regulatory authority, like the FCC, that's independent that can give out licenses to people for that limited space. Otherwise it gets very chaotic and the signals get crossed ...
... many of the concerns about consolidation and preservation of diversity that have been expressed by my colleagues this morning. I also believe, however, that the FCC must respond to congressional and judicial calls to update our rules for the 21st century. We are under a legal mandate to review our ...
... SMITH: Some of that comment apparently came in response to a television ad sponsored by the advocacy group, moveon.org. COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER: Republicans on the FCC plan to get rid of an important regulation so Rupert Murdoch can buy more TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, giving him control over much ...
... and witnesses. The Senate hearing Thursday is the second meeting for lawmakers, media executives, and consumer advocates to debate and examine the implications of the FCC's upcoming decision whether to overhaul media regulations. FCC Chairman Michael Powell and two fellow Republican commissioners, Kathleen Abernathy and Kevin Martin -- a majority ...
... lease their hardware to competitors at wholesale prices. The idea was to let other companies piggyback on the existing infrastructure. Reed Hundt, who chaired the FCC when the '96 act passed, says the system is working. Hundt is now a telecom consultant. REED HUNDT: It's because of that, that ...
There's a huge pent-up demand for people who want to use the airwaves to speak to their communities. I knew we were on to something, something important. TERENCE SMITH: Three thousand and five hundred applications came flooding in the doors of the FCC from churches, schools, community groups ...
... to the House Commerce Committee and the Federal Communications Commission about the "grandfather" amendment that allows Belo and other media companies to own newspapers and TV stations in the same market. The FCC is conducting a massive overhaul of its ownership regulations, with an eye towards relaxing cross-ownership restrictions.
... change the definition in a very legalistic way of the term enriched on bread, flour, spaghetti, whatever. If it says enriched, the FDA and the FCC says you have got to put folic acid in there. You've got to put iron, and thiamin, niacin, riboflavin in there, too, which ...
... the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell, is sympathetic to the business point of view. He says it's reasonable for the courts to ask the FCC to justify rules that were made when the major networks had the airwaves virtually to themselves. MICHAEL POWELL, Chairman, FCC: I think that's ...
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