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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The incoming chairmen of the Senate and House committees that oversee the Federal Communications Commission are urging its chairman, Kevin Martin, to devote his remaining days to the digital TV transition and to postpone FCC action on several controversial issues. The warning from U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman...
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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...