CORRECTED: U.S. court rejects FCC broadcast decency limit
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In a major victory for commercial  television networks, a U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled  federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on  broadcast TV violated decency standards.
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So, only 20 TV stations are culpable for airing last year&#39;s Super Bowl halftime show [&quot;FCC Throws Flag at CBS&#39;s Halftime Play,&quot; Style, Sept.
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The government is violating the First Amendment by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told Wednesday by Fox Television Stations Inc.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to hike fines to as  much as $500,000 on broadcasters and entertainers who violate  decency limits on the air.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer  When the government's attempt to relax media ownership rules was defeated in court two years ago, some hailed it as a victory against putting too much power in the hands of too few media lords.
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Television networks are free to sprinkle their programs with shootings, slashings, torture and other gore because the government has no regulatory authority over violent programming. But a draft report being circulated at the Federal Communications Commission says Congress can change that, without violating the First Amendment.
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The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a record-setting $1.2 million fine against 169 Fox television stations for an April 2003 broadcast of &quot;Married by
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The federal appeals court  here on Thursday rejected webcasters&#39; request to postpone  implementation of a new royalty rate for music they air over  the Web.
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A federal appeals court on Friday denied a request from Tribune Co., publisher of the Chicago Tribune, to allow mergers between newspapers and broadcast stations in markets with at least nine television stations.
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By Arshad Mohammed, Washington Post Staff Writer  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin yesterday dropped plans to vote this week on whether to require cable companies to carry extra digital channels produced by TV broadcasters, suggesting he could not muster the votes.
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StreamCast, which owns the Morpheus P2P Network has formally asked the US Supreme Court to reject requests made by the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to revisit lower court decisions
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THE US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the recording industry seeking to force internet service providers to turn over the names of subscribers suspected of music piracy.
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Television broadcasters won a temporary victory yesterday when a federal appeals court told the Federal Communications Commission not to enforce an indecency ruling it imposed on several television shows earlier this year.
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A federal court handed the TV networks a major victory yesterday, ruling that the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on indecency was "arbitrary and capricious."
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CBS asked a federal appeals court on Friday to set aside the $550,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission against the broadcaster for airing Janet Jackson's breast-baring performance during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
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U.S. regulators on Thursday dealt a  blow to television broadcasters by rejecting requests that  cable operators be required to carry more than one of the  stations' primary channels.
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U.S. television broadcasters Fox and CBS Corp. this week argued that a Federal Communications Commission crackdown on fleeting TV profanity and nudity was unconstitutional and a big change in how the agency handled similar cases.