CBS, Fox, NBC, Telemundo and ABC have all agreed to keep both analog and digital signals airing for their owned and operated stations through the new June 12 date set for the DTV transition. Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Copps made the announcement at his first FCC meeting...
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Tuesday may be Election Day, but at the U.S. Supreme Court the focus won’t be on Obama vs. McCain. Rather, it will be on the Federal Communications Commission’s stepped-up indecency enforcement efforts. In a case that could have a dramatic impact on broadcast TV’s content, the high court takes up the...
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Reaction came swiftly to an appellate court’s decision overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s fining of CBS stations in the Janet Jackson 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” incident. Artists, broadcasters and some First Amendment groups praised the ruling, while advocates of an indecency...