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Lots of smoke but likely to be few flames in D.C. for Comcast-NBC by Company Town

The takeover of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal by cable giant Comcast Corp. is expected to be announced very soon, and already public interest groups are lining up to do battle in D.C. against the deal. The Center for Digital...

FCC taps Steve Waldman for important yet hard to describe job by Company Town

Call him Media Czar! Or, maybe, new media czar. Oh heck, we don't know what to call him. Steve Waldman, the co-founder of News Corp.'s Beliefnet.com and a former national editor at US News & World Report, has been tapped...

FCC may look to redefine how it measures media concentration by Company Town

The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled the topics it is looking to discuss as it considers revising its media ownership rules, and one area it is looking to explore could have ramifications for future mergers between broadcast and cable companies...

Deconstructing Julius: A conversation with FCC Chairman Genachowski by Company Town

New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski popped by our offices Thursday for a wide-ranging discussion of his agenda at the regulatory agency and the ever-changing media landscape. Well, we tried to make it a wide-ranging discussion...

Few immediate regulatory hurdles for a Comcast-NBC combo by Company Town

There isn't even a deal to criticize yet, but that's not stopping some public advocacy groups from making noise about a possible Comcast-NBC Universal combination needing to be scrutinized by regulators in Washington. As we noted earlier, on the...

FCC gets ready for quadrennial review of media ownership rules by Company Town

It's not exactly an invitation to the Emmy Awards or the Allen & Co. conference, but moguls nonetheless will be checking their mailboxes over the next few weeks to see if the Federal Communications Commission wants them to participate in...
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Comcast wins ruling on FCC cable ownership caps by Company Town

The nation's biggest cable operator can get bigger. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with Comcast Corp. and against the Federal Communications Commission in a closely-watched case about just how much of the nation's...
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