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March 2008
- Fox Thumbs Nose at $91K FCC Fine
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Mar 25, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  Think strippers and whipped cream is indecent? Pshaw, says Fox, which wants the FCC to drop a $91,000 indecency fine for a 2003 episode of “Married by America” in which contestants at rowdy parties licked whipped cream off topless strippers. The network originally was fined $1.2 million, reports Bloomberg, but the FCC decided to impose $7,000 fines only on the 13 stations that received complaints. More »
  
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  FCC • Fox • indecency • stripper
- Google Still Wants Unused TV 'White Space' for Wireless Web
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT
  
  Google is re-doubling its efforts to get the FCC to allow the development of unused space in the TV spectrum for wireless Internet service, the Wall Street Journal reports. "The vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused," the tech giant wrote to the commission. "There is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow." TV broadcasters, fearful of interference, oppose the co-opting of the white space. More »
  
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  Google • FCC • Wi-Fi • Internet service providers • spectrum
- Satellite Merger Clears Hurdle
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 24, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  The Justice Department today approved the proposed merger between satellite radio firms Sirius and XM, the Wall Street Journal r eports. The FCC must still sign off, but the pair appears to have allayed antitrust concerns about the merger of the industry's two largest companies by arguing that they face competition from all music providers, including conventional radio. More »
  
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  mergers and acquisitions • FCC • music industry • radio • Justice Department • competition • Sirius • satellite radio • XM Satellite Radio
- AT&T, Verizon Will Dominate New Airwaves
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 21, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  AT&T and Verizon were the two top bidders in the airwaves auction that ended this week, representing 80% of the FCC’s record $19.6 billion haul and positioning themselves to offer advanced wireless Internet services, reports the Wall Street Journal. Google, sans licenses, was another winner, gaining open access to a chunk of spectrum that mostly went to Verizon. More »
  
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  Google • FCC • Verizon • cell phone industry • AT&T • wireless industry • spectrum auction • mobile Internet
- FCC Airwaves Auction Sets Record
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Mar 19, 08 8:26 AM CDT
  
  The FCC earned a record $19.6 billion auctioning soon-to-be-available airwaves to wireless network providers, the Wall Street Journal reports after months of bidding closed yesterday. While the auction exceeded the $15 billion the agency expected, it could have earned still more if it hadn’t placed restrictions on certain blocks of frequencies, critics say. More »
  
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  Google • FCC • spectrum auction • bandwidth
- Supremes to Weigh On-Air Swearing
  
  newser | Reuters | Mar 17, 08 1:11 PM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court might take up a gavel in one hand and a bar of soap in the other next term, when it considers a case challenging the FCC’s “fleeting utterances” standards, it announced today. The FCC is appealing a lower-court ruling—which arose when Cher dropped an F-bomb during a 2002 Fox broadcast—that it has failed to “articulate a reasoned basis” for the rules. More »
  
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  television • US Supreme Court • FCC • CBS • Fox • constitutionality • indecency • Janet Jackson • profanity • wardrobe malfunction • swearing
- Gates to FCC: Give Us More WiFi Spectrum
  
  newser | Reuters | Mar 14, 08 11:07 AM CDT
  
  A month after Microsoft failed its second opportunity to convince the FCC that companies could deliver broadband Internet via unused TV frequencies without interfering with programming, Bill Gates pushed regulators Thursday to approve the plan, Reuters reports. He said “white space” between channels could allow WiFi to “explode” into less densely populated areas of the US. More »
  
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  television • Microsoft • FCC • Bill Gates • Wi-Fi • broadband Internet • white space • spectrum
- Net Neutrality May Slow Downloads
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Mar 11, 08 12:20 PM CDT
  
  The principle of net neutrality can be taken too far, some experts say. The internet could be made much more efficient—and downloads faster—if network managers were allowed to use info about the content they're sending, a Princeton engineering professor tells Technology Review. That would allow them to prioritize what should be rushed and what can wait. More »
  
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  FCC • Comcast • net neutrality
- FCC Member Wants Probe of Ala. TV Station
  
  newser | Broadcasting & Cable | Mar 4, 08 4:10 PM CST
  
  An FCC commissioner wants to know why an Alabama TV station went off the air just as a "60 Minutes" segment critical of Karl Rove started, Broadcasting & Cable reports. WHNT blamed a “technical difficulty," but Michael Copps said today he wants to find out whether Sunday's blackout of most of a segment about the imprisonment of ex-governor Don Siegelman was a political move. More »
  
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  FCC • Karl Rove • Kevin Martin • Alabama • governor • Don Siegelman • blackout • Michael Copps
February 2008
- Comcast Stooges Pack FCC Hearing
  
  newser | Portfolio | Feb 27, 08 6:00 AM CST
  
  The future direction of the Internet could be at stake in the FCC's decisions on net neutrality, but one of the ISPs concerned did its best to keep opponents out of a hearing on it, Portfolio.com reports. Advocacy group and fierce Comcast critic Free Press says the firm hired people off the street to fill seats at a Cambridge, Mass., hearing into the ISP's competition-stifling practices. Many of the seatfillers snoozed through the meeting. More »
  
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  FCC • Comcast • net neutrality • ISP
- FCC Ready to Defend Net Neutrality
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Feb 26, 08 12:30 PM CST
  
  FCC boss Kevin Martin told a hearing yesterday that the government was "ready, willing, and able to step in" to stop Internet service providers from restricting traffic sent by rivals, the Wall Street Journal reports. Comcast is accused of acting improperly by slowing or blocking access to file-sharing sites. The cable giant says it is merely managing its network. More »
  
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  Internet • FCC • Comcast • Kevin Martin • broadband Internet • file sharing • net neutrality • ISP • Internet access
- Broadcaster Rebuts McCain Lobbying Denial
  
  newser | Washington Post | Feb 23, 08 10:05 AM CST
  
  John McCain's campaign has flatly denied that the senator met with a broadcaster or his lobbyist before writing to the FCC on his behalf in 1999. But Bud Paxson remembers the meeting; he says VIcki Iseman set it up, and may have attended, too. "Was Vicki there? Probably," Paxson tells the Washington Post . And he specificially remembers asking McCain to write the letter. More »
  
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  John McCain • FCC • ethics • lobbying • Vicki Iseman • Paxson Communications
- McCain Critics Say Denials Bend Truth
  
  newser | TPM Muckraker | Feb 21, 08 4:40 PM CST
  
  John McCain's camp insists he did not act inappropriately on behalf of lobbyist Vicki Iseman's clients, but Talking Points Memo bloggers beg to differ. They point to newspaper articles from 2000 that said McCain—then chair of the Senate Commerce Committee—wrote a letter to the FCC on behalf of Paxson Communications, and that the FCC chief rebuked him for it, saying he was "concerned" about its effect on the decision-making process. More »
  
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  John McCain • FCC • Vicki Iseman
- Microsoft Blunder Dashes Wireless Hopes
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Feb 13, 08 3:08 PM CST
  
  Twice, the technology sector has looked to Microsoft to help convince the FCC to let it use dormant TV frequencies to deliver broadband Internet – and twice, Microsoft has failed. Last week, the FCC tested a Microsoft device designed to prove the broadband and TV signals could coexist, only to have it fail utterly, the Wall Street Journal reports, possibly killing the initiative. More »
  
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  Microsoft • FCC • broadband Internet • airwaves • white space
January 2008
- Big Bid Ensures Open Access Network in US
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Jan 31, 08 10:17 PM CST
  
  Google’s hopes of forcing a piece of the national radio spectrum into becoming an open access wireless network came a step closer to fruition today, Marketwatch reports. The bid price on the “C block” of 700 Mhz spectrum hit $4.7 billion, enough to trigger FCC regulations that will require the spectrum to support mobile devices not made by the network’s owner. More »
  
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  Google • FCC • wireless • spectrum auction • 700 Mhz
- ABC Faces Hefty FCC Fine for Bare Bottom
  
  newser | Hollywood Reporter | Jan 26, 08 2:01 PM CST
  
  The airing of a woman’s bare bottom almost five years ago could cost ABC $1.43 million, if the FCC gets its way. The media watchdog levied the maximum penalty last night against the Disney-owned broadcaster for a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue . The stiff penalty is a sign the FCC’s anti-indecency initiative is back in full force, the Hollywood Reporter says. More »
  
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  television • FCC • ABC • First Amendment • indecency
- Analog Service Hanging Up on Customers
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jan 21, 08 3:01 AM CST
  
  Phone customers still dialing up using old analog networks will be out of luck—and service—beginning Feb. 18 when the nation’s wireless companies shut down the outdated technology and switch to digital. Of the quarter-billion American cell phone users, the vast majority use digital networks, but some 1 million people still phone the old way, reports the Washington Post. More »
  
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  General Motors • FCC • Verizon • AT and T • Sprint Nextel • T-Mobile • phone service • Alltell • analog networks
- FCC to Re-Test Wireless Internet Devices
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 19, 08 12:20 AM CST
  
  After a series of unsuccessful tests, the Federal Communications Commission is heading back to the lab to assess a new round of devices for broadcasting high-speed Internet in the white space available in between TV airwaves. The prototypes come from a coalition of top-tier bidders, including Microsoft, Philips, and Intel, none of which received positive grades the first time around, the AP reports. More »
  
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  Internet • Microsoft • FCC • Wi-Fi • broadband Internet • wireless technology • Philips • rural area
- FCC: Economy Could Dampen Wireless Sale
  
  newser | Reuters | Jan 18, 08 10:24 AM CST
  
  FCC head Kevin Martin registered concern this week about the impact of the credit crunch on the government auction of wireless airwaves scheduled to begin Jan. 24, Reuters reports. The auction, which Congress has ordered to go forward, comes at a time when the meltdown of housing and subprime mortgage markets has battered the ability of companies to raise capital. More »
  
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  Congress • mortgage crisis • FCC • Verizon • AT and T • Kevin Martin • spectrum auction
- Crickets Likely at FCC Discount Airwave Auction
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jan 15, 08 2:32 PM CST
  
  What if the FCC held an auction and nobody came? In 2 weeks, the government will put a nationwide airwave on the block starting at the low, low price of $1.33 billion. The catch? The lucky winner has to share the band with emergency responders. Right now, no company looks too interested in the deal, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
  
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  Google • FCC • AT and T • spectrum auction • airwaves • emergency responders

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