FCC Chief Says Cannot Block Anti-Kerry Show
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The U.S. Federal Communications  Commission cannot stop the broadcast of a show critical of  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's anti-war  comments after returning from Vietnam, the agency's head said  on Thursday.
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U.S. television networks refused to play by rules restricting camera angles and reaction shots during the presidential debate and that may have given a boost to John Kerry, analysts said on Friday.
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Democratic candidate John Kerry's campaign demanded Thursday that the lights signaling when a speaker's time has expired during debates with President Bush be removed from the lecterns because they are distracting, but the commission hosting the debates refused.
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Despite a grilling from a Senate committee yesterday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin said he would not postpone a Dec. 18 vote on a controversial media-ownership rule.
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The chairman of the U.S. Senate's  antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday urged regulators to block  Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s proposed acquisition of XM  Satellite Radio Holdings Inc..
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On the August 24 edition of FOX News Channel&#39;s Hannity &amp; Colmes, co-host Alan Colmes confronted John E. O&#39;Neill, co-founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, about
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Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, contending that Sinclair Broadcast Group wants to help President Bush by airing an anti-Kerry documentary two weeks before the election, asked on Friday that each station carrying the program provide a similar amount of time to Kerry supporters.
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Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry appealed for an end to the advertising war that has pitted his supporters against those of President George W. Bush.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force Republican critics to withdraw ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks.
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Republicans have been trying to suppress voting in states where the presidential race is too close to call, Democratic nominee John Kerry said Sunday at one of the city's largest predominantly black churches.
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The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ownership is full of loopholes and will lead to more mergers and fewer choices for consumers.
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A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service.
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Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell has rejected lawmakers' requests that the agency stop Sinclair Broadcasting from airing a documentary critical of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.
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Political opposition to the merger of satellite radio providers XM and Sirius increased on Wednesday, as the chair of the Senate antitrust committee sent a letter to both the FCC and Justice Department opposing the deal.
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US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell is calling for a hands-off regulatory approach to Voice over IP (VoIP) and has vowed to try to take regulatory control
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The head of the U.S. Federal  Communications Commission flatly refused on Thursday to delay a  vote next week on a plan to ease U.S. media ownership rules  despite a barrage of criticism from Senate lawmakers.
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U.S. Federal Communications Commission  Chairman Kevin Martin defended the agency's rule-making  procedures and management practices on Wednesday, a day after a  congressional committee said it would investigate.