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Martin DMZ Blocks Korean Reporter's Access

Fifty-five years of peace on the Korean peninsula suffered a minor setback last week after Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin landed in Seoul for a two-day ministerial session of the 30-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. According to a published report, Martin held a press conference that U.S. Embassy officials limited to U.S. media outlets,... More

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Martin Responds To Leased Access Stay

Washington—If Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is smarting from his latest setback in federal court, he didn’t show it a press conference Friday morning. A day earlier, a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit stayed Martin-backed rules intended to slash the rates that third-party programmers pay to get on cable systems. It was... More

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2008 Not So Great For NAB's Rehr

David Rehr, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, must be unlucky. After a string of NAB policy defeats in Washington, D.C., the airline industry goes and produces one of its worst flight backups in decades just as thousands prepare to jet to NAB’s annual convention in Las Vegas. Maybe it’s because broadcasters and the airlines have something in common: Both... More

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Like Cable, NFL's Goodell Can't Get NFL Sunday Ticket - Maybe

Evidently, NFL Commission Roger Goodell has something in common with Comcast and Time Warner Cable: He can’t get DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, either. “I come from New York. I can’t get satellite in New York City,” Goodell told the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet last Wednesday. DirecTV, the No. satellite provider with 16.8... More

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Kevin Martin: Real Estate Bundler

  Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is expected to leave office when President Bush’s second term expires next January. Preparing for the transition, Martin has put his Georgetown home on the market for $1.2 million, up more than $400,000 from when he bought it seven years ago, according to Mr. Emit Renraw, senior account executive at ETR Acala... More