Senate Panel to Vote on Digital TV Bill
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A critical Senate committee plans to vote this week on legislation that would require broadcasters to abandon their current analog TV channels and switch solely to digital transmissions by 2009.
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Blog: New bill backed by parents' groups includes proposal that cable and satellite TV operators let subscribers buy a "family tier" of programming or opt out of most channels they don't want.
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Senators are debating whether to pass a resolution opposing President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq. Democrats want a simple vote on the measure, passed yesterday by the House. But it is not clear if they will have the 60 votes necessary to move ahead.
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A majority of the members of the Federal Communications Commission told a House panel yesterday that they support an open-access requirement for the coming radio spectrum auction that would give consumers more choices for cellphone devices and services.
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The Senate passes a copyright bill that is not as bad as digital rights activists had feared. The bill drops language that would have banned tech that would have allowed people to skip commercials. By Katie Dean.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission this week hopes to do what Congress could not accomplish this year -- help AT&amp;T Inc. and Verizon Communications get into the television business faster.
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A U.S. Senate committee approved a  bipartisan bill to tighten rules on government eavesdropping on  terrorism suspects, but a Democratic presidential candidate  said on Thursday he would try to block it.
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By Michael Martz, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 16--A City Council committee voted unanimously last night to let the state's largest telephone company bring cable TV competition to most homes in Richmond.
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The Federal Communications Commission says in a Congressional report that cable bills would increase under a system that lets customers pick and choose. Consumer groups disagree.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators  threatened on Monday to override the Federal Communications  Commission if the agency votes to loosen media ownership  restrictions at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
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A congressional investigator warned a Senate panel Wednesday that there is no lead agency responsible for helping the nation navigate the transition to digital TV broadcasting.
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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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Two senators on Wednesday threatened  to introduce bipartisan legislation that would block the  Federal Communication Commission from easing rules governing  media ownership.
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U.S. television broadcasters on Monday labeled as inadequate planned legislation to ensure millions of consumers can still watch television once broadcasters begin airing only in digital.
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The vote would send the intelligence overhaul bill to the Senate, which is expected to pass it on Wednesday.
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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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Legislation designed to prevent  broadband Internet providers from unreasonable interference  with subscribers' access to content was introduced on Wednesday  by a senior U.S. lawmaker.