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House and Senate staffers remain fairly optimistic that some form of cable reregulation legislation will pass both chambers this year, although time is running out. Senate Communications Subcommittee Counsel Antoinette [...]

And just exactly what it means for broadcasters no one quite seems to know; state laws add to confusion Next Monday (May 7) the much-ballyhooed new Charity Games Advertising and [...]

Budget Act implementation will require station applications to go to Mellon Bank there; fees are also hiked Lawyers and others doing business with the FCC will have to get used [...]

Sen. Sam Brownback is frustrated that anti-indecency legislation is mired in Senate politics. So the Kansas Republican may slip a stripped-down version into a Defense Department budget bill. His amendment [...]

As the Senate commerce committee and the House telecommunications subcommittee prepare for Feb. 11 hearing on broadcast indecency, CBS, under withering fire for a coarse Super Bowl halftime show, has [...]

Backed by Bush, FCC levies record fine as broadcasters feel heat from reps Heavy fines proposed by the Federal Communications Commission last week demonstrated the agency's newfound resolve to fight [...]

NAPLES, Italy -- Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi rejected a controversial bill in Rome that critics said would benefit the media empire of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sending it back […]

ROME -- The Italian Senate on Tuesday put a final seal on the conservative government's controversial bill for the reform of the country's television system. The bill was approved in […]

ROME -- The Italian Senate on Tuesday put a final seal on the conservative government's controversial bill for the reform of the country's television system. The bill was approved in […]

TORONTO -- The Canadian government has proposed tougher domestic laws to crack down on piracy of U.S. satellite signals north of the border. Federal Industry Minister Allan Rock and Minister […]

The parliament of Malawi voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to pull the plug immediately on 'Big Brother,' the all-African reality television show being beamed across the continent. 'People are subjected to horrible […]

LONDON -- David Currie, chairman of Britain's media super-regulator the Office of Communications, has issued a warning, that the introduction of new public-interest clauses in the proposed communications bill is […]

WASHINGTON -- FCC chairman Michael Powell on Thursday dumped a bucket of cold water on a request by the commission's two Democratic members to delay a vote on easing the […]

* Using a federal law that allows noncommercial broadcasters with licenses for full-power stations to push out those with weaker signals, religious broadcasters across the country have been squeezing out [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- The Federal Communications Commission is going to move cautiously in its effort to overhaul media ownership rules, FCC chairman Michael Powell said here last Tuesday at a [...]

Broadcasters balk at quid pro quo for two-step renewal Senate bill that includes programing and housekeeping obligations along with renewal revamp critiqued by NAB and others at hearing Senate legislation [...]

Fairness doctrine on its way to White House House follows Senate in approving bill; whether President will veto measure is not known, although administration has opposed it The Dingell-Markey legislative [...]

Growing interest in Congress over music licensing The battle over music licensing isn't likely to end soon. That was the impression left by key congressional members appearing on an NAB [...]

Commission limits settlement payments and requires more documentation; delays action on revamping comparative criteria The FCC moved last week to curb what it views as 'abuse' of the agency's comparative [...]

The Federal Communications Commission will use broadcast auctions to determine the status of mutually exclusive applications except applications for noncommerical educational broadcast stations, public broadcast stations, minor modifications in the facilities of existing stations, initial licensees to replace their analog television licensees.

Hopes for authorization of spectrum auctions before judges act on license backlog WASHINGTON The FCC is giving Congress a little more time to empower the commission to auction analog broadcast [...]

Washington -- The open-video system -- a new method for telcos to compete against cable operators -- is driving a wedge between at least one cable programmer and major cable [...]

Some broadcasters say there's no problem lifting ban; other group owners disagree, fear abuses Several broadcasters say that broadcast-newspaper crossownership restrictions are outdated; others are not so sure. Broadcasters offer [...]

Children's television may be a hot subject at the FCC these days, but Susan Ness's agenda stretches far beyond the broadcast channels. The FCC commissioner has her eye on the [...]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) placed a gag order on parties involved in the FCC investigation of the ownership of Fox Television Stations Inc. and, after protest, narrowed the gag order to confidential materials. The FCC is investigating whether Fox violated restrictions on foreign ownership of US television stations. The failure of the FCC to properly document the basis for its gag order has prompted some officials to question the administrative procedures of the federal agency.

The European Union adopted a green paper on audiovisual matters and released it last week with two controversial suggestions: tightening enforcement of European programming quotas and creating a Europe-wide subsidy [...]

The Government expresses fears that the introduction of advertising on the BBC would threaten the range and quality of programmes in it's green paper, the Future of the BBC, published [...]

National Cable Television Association President James Mooney last week told a group of local cable programers that Congress was 'likely' to pass a bill reregulating cable this year largely in [...]

The FCC is expected to adopt a proposal to increase the percentage of a broadcast license a person can own before that station counts against them for the purposes of [...]