Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners
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A Federal Communications Commission proposal would relax decades-old rules, including one that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city.
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Broadcasters beat back a proposal that would have required them to give up their current analog channels by 2009 as their allies on the Senate Commerce Committee
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The Boston Herald's effort to get the Justice Department to halt The New York Times Co.'s acquisition of a minority share of the Metro Boston newspaper on antitrust grounds could hinge on how the area's media market is defined.
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Proposed law would allow more people to be charged with criminal copyright violations.
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LIBERTY Media&#39;s move last week to grab up to 17.1 per cent of News Corporation voting stock has prompted the launch of a defensive shareholder rights plan.
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By Arshad Mohammed, Washington Post Staff Writer  The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill making it easier for phone companies to offer video programming, bringing consumers a step closer to having more choices for their cable TV service.
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Internet access could be cut for people who illegally download music and videos  under government proposals.
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The issue of self-censorship has come into sharp relief because of declining circulation and a concentration of media ownership among the new presidentâs allies.
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The effect on YouTube and other sites isn't clear, but China says it will restrict broadcasting to state-owned or state-controlled providers.
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The decision clears the way for the media company to complete its plans to go private by year's end.
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Broadcasters beat back a proposal that would have required them to give up their current analog channels by 2009 as their allies on the Senate Commerce Committee won approval Wednesday for a weaker proposal.
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THE Government would prefer competition in the media industry, but last week&#39;s merger deal between Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and MediaCorp underlined the reality of the limitations of the market here, especially for television.
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The move by the Bush administration set back media companies hoping to own both TV stations and newspapers in the same markets.
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Global media group News Corp. has launched a shareholders&#39; rights plan to protect shareholders&#39; interests if any attempt is made to wrest control from executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his family.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp., the world&#39;s fifth-largest media company and owner of the Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel, adopted a plan to thwart any hostile takeover after John Malone&#39;s Liberty Media Corp.
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Prime Minister John Howard confirmed that his government plans to pass laws allowing the full sale of Australian communications giant Telstra next year, but said changes to media ownership laws are not a priority.
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The $550,000 fine against CBS could be seen as a victory for those pushing for a purification of the public airwaves. &quot;It&#39;s a partial victory,&quot; said Lara Mahaney of the Parents Television