FCC wants to regulate TV violence
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The Federal  Communications Commission is considering a report to Congress  claiming that the agency can regulate TV violence the same way  it regulates indecency if lawmakers give it the authority,  sources said Thursday.
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Federal regulators took issue Friday with consumer groups that contend that allowing cable television subscribers to pay only for channels they want would lower consumers&#39; cable bills.
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Blog: Media conglomerate had asked federal regulators to require broadband providers to police their networks for copyright violations, but public-interest groups say the effort is "misguided."
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the spiraling costs of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this week that shut out competitors by giving individual cable companies exclusive rights to provide service to an apartment building, the agency's chairman says.
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Federal regulators are stepping up their pressure on television stations to give up billions of dollars worth of airwaves in major markets around the country, saying the spectrum is urgently needed by local public safety officials.
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Most U.S. households would face higher television bills if they only paid for the channels they wanted to watch, U.S. regulators told Congress in a report released on Friday.
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Lawmakers are turning  their attention to the television industry as the Senate  Commerce Committee examines the effect of violent content on  America&#39;s youth.
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U.S. communications regulators are expected to approve on Tuesday a plan to loosen media ownership restrictions, despite objections from consumer groups and a threat by some U.S. senators to revoke the action.
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TV's over-zealous profanity police rebuked by court US television regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may not have the right to police American airwaves, a court has ruled. The ruling is a blow to a George W Bush-led clampdown on on-air swearing.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday in the night of March 3, 1991. The officers' acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles. If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French online civil liberties group Odebi. And anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of â¬75,000 ($98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act. Senators and members of the National Assembly had asked the council to rule on the constitutionality of six articles of the Law relating to the prevention of delinquency. The articles dealt with information sharing by social workers, and reduced sentences for minors. The council recommended one minor change, to reconcile conflicting amendments voted in parliament. The law, proposed by Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, is intended to clamp down on a wide range of public order offenses. During parliamentary debate of the law, government representatives said the offense of filming or distributing films of acts of violence targets the practice of "happy slapping," in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker's friends. The broad drafting of the law so as to criminalize the activities of citizen journalists unrelated to the perpetrators of violent acts is no accident, but rather a deliberate decision by the authorities, said Cohet. He is concerned that the law, and others still being debated, will lead to the creation of a parallel judicial system controlling the publication of information on the Internet. The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules. The journalists' organization Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for a free press, has warned that such a system could lead to excessive self censorship as organizations worried about losing their certification suppress certain stories.
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Institute for Policy Innovation's Bartlett Cleland says FCC has it partly right and partly wrong when it comes to fostering video competition.
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The executives and marketing people at Turner Broadcasting should be arrested, charged and prosecuted to the full extent of the law under the anti-terrorism statutes. Further, the FCC should immediately revoke its broadcasting license.
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PARIS-The television broadcasts are infused with violence and hate. The predicament facing the French government is how to stop them.
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U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on  Thursday that would protect children from indecent television  programs by forcing cable and satellite providers to offer a  modified form of la carte programming or make other changes in  the way they operate.
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Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate indecency on broadcast TV have drawn sharp criticism from network entertainment chiefs.
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The nation's top TV regulator said it would be difficult for the Federal Communications Commission to take action against ABC stations that aired "Good Morning America" on Tuesday when actress Diane Keaton used the f-word. Last year's court decision th...
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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.