FCC changes broadcast-newspaper owner ban
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The Federal Communications Commission in a party-line, 3-2 vote, agreed Tuesday to overturn a 32-year-old ban and allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper.
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To the surprise of no one As you might expect, Verizon isn't too happy about recent news from the FCC. A day after Federal Communications Chair Kevin Martin called for open-access to the U.S. wireless spectrum, the company's general counsel told Congress that giving consumers the freedom to control their own wireless destiny is a bad idea.â¦
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to impose a limit on the size cable operators can reach on a nationwide basis.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday kicked off efforts that could reshape the communications services available to airline passengers, deciding to auction off spectrum now set aside for air-to-ground phone service and proposing to relax its ban on the use of cellular phones in flight.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday cleared the way for power companies to roll out broadband over power line service by approving a set of rules designed to limit interference to other radio frequency devices such as amateur radios.
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EL SEGUNDO, California  - Tribune Co. keeps battling U.S. regulations that prevent it from owning a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same market even as its largest shareholder has asked the company to split its divisions or find a buyer.
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The Federal Communications Commission is pushing ahead to pass a rule today that would allow more consolidation of local media ownership in the nation's largest cities, despite the fresh threat of a legislative rebuke and continued protests from advocacy groups.
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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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The average circulation of the nation&#39;s newspapers fell in the six months ended in September, as new federal restrictions on telemarketing and a more conservative approach by some publications
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Mar. 7--A new federal rule is meant to put competition into cable TV, but don't look for a new system in your neighborhood anytime soon.
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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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By Joseph Kahn New York Times News Service  BEIJING -- China imposed broad new restrictions Sunday on the distribution of foreign news in the country, beefing up state regulations on the news media.
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The latest in a series of  moves leading up to China&#39;s biggest Communist party meeting in  years saw broadcast media censors ban all &quot;vulgar&quot; and sexually  explicit material from the airwaves, state media reported  Tuesday.
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China has released new rules governing the domestic distribution of news content by international media organisations, further beefing up state control of the press.
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The commission decided this week to increase regulation of the cable market and to allow some newspapers to own a radio or TV station in the same market.
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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.
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