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...
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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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is proposing the agency speed its response to independent networks’ complaints that satellite and cable providers treat their owned channels and independent ones differently. Such discrimination could help the NFL, sports team owners and some new...
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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...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin crossed party lines recently, siding with Democrats at the agency in finding that Comcast Corp. had improperly managed Web traffic on its high-speed Internet lines. That decision may or may not withstand predicted legal challenges. Whether or...
A sharply divided Federal Communications Commission said Comcast Corp. “unduly interfered” with subscribers’ Internet access and that the biggest U.S. cable operator illegally discriminated when it cut off downloads from peer-to peer-file-sharing Web sites last year. Consumer groups quickly labeled the...