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A strong visionary with remarkable finesse—that consensus pretty well sums up TelevisionWeek ’s 2009 Cable Executive of the Year, National Cable & Telecommunications Association President-CEO Kyle McSlarrow. While the adjectives “smart” and “decent” frequently are applied to Mr. McSlarrow by friends...
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President Barack Obama made it official today, nominating Julius Genachowski to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. “I can think of no one better than Julius Genachowski to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,” the president said in a statement. “He will bring...
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The Federal Communications Commission today approved the plan to separate Time Warner Cable from Time Warner. The main item still standing in the way of the spinoff is a tax letter from the Internal Revenue Service, according to analyst Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research. Mr. Moffett said Time Warner...
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin in his last hours as chairman is delivering one last attack on cable pricing. In a letter to leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee and in an action taken by the FCC’s Media Bureau, Mr. Martin is accusing cable providers of raising rates while...
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Federal Communication Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin used his last agency meeting as chairman to announce he will leave the commission, rather than staying on in the Obama administration. Mr. Martin’s departure was expected, but he had previously declined to disclose his plans. President-elect Barack...
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The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission is again stepping in to speed the resolution of a complaint that cable systems aren’t dealing fairly with an independent cable network, this time to the benefit of the NFL Network. The Media Bureau today withdrew from an administrative judge the...
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A House Energy and Commerce Committee report released Wednesday concludes that the Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin Martin has a record of “egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data,” in the words of the chairman who oversaw an investigation...
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The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., today ruled to uphold the FCC’s decision to require cable systems to make the digital signals of local broadcast must-carry stations viewable to all subscribers, including analog subscribers. The decision was made despite protests from cable programmers...
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The Federal Communications Commission’s media bureau is giving the NFL Network, WealthTV and a Baltimore/Washington sports network a major victory in their battle for carriage on cable systems, saying there is sufficient evidence the channels are being discriminated against to justify administrative...
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The cable industry is urging Congress to insist broadcasters put off any retransmission battles and any chance local TV signals could be dropped from their cable systems until after the digital TV switchover happens Feb. 17. “I want to raise a flag that a storm is coming,” Kyle McSlarrow, president-CEO...
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The movie industry today warned the Federal Communications Commission about acting to implement a la carte pricing of cable TV channels even at the wholesale level. In a filing today, the Motion Picture Association of America urged the FCC to reject consumer groups’ request to let cable providers pick...