Regulation Of TV & Entertainment Services
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Copps Hammers Verizon-SpectrumCoJohn Eggerton, May 21, 2012FCC commissioner and consolidation critic Michael Copps may have left the commission, but he is holding to his pledge by speaking out on the issue on which he passionate at a recent going-away party hosted by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. More
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FCC Names New Homeland Security Bureau ChiefJohn Eggerton, May 21, 2012David Turetsky, most recently a media lawyer at Dewey & LeBoeuf, is joining the FCC as chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, effective after Memorial Day (May 28). More
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MPAA Names Miller Content Protection ExecJohn Eggerton, May 21, 2012The Motion Picture Association of America has named Marc Miller SVP, content protection and the Internet. He replaces Kevin Suh, who exited a couple of months ago to join MPAA member Paramount. More
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FTC Ponders Mobile, Online Privacy DisclosuresJohn Eggerton, May 21, 2012Cable operators looking at mobility as a big value added will want to pencil in May 30 on their calendars. That is when the Federal Trade Commission is holding its workshop on what privacy disclosures are required for location-based and other online advertising. More
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Google Expects To Close Motorola Deal Within Two DaysBy Todd Spangler, May 21, 2012Google expects to close its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility within the next two business days, after the deal was approved late last week by Chinese antitrust regulators. More
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Court Agrees: Cost Is Defense for Non-Carriage
By John Eggerton, May 21, 2012A federal appeals court agreed last week that programming costs are a defensible reason for a cable operator to treat a regional sports network differently than its own, co-owned service. More
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What Is an MVPD, Exactly? Cable Ops Weigh In By John Eggerton, May 21, 2012The Federal Communications Commission’s request for help in defining what exactly an MVPD is finally drew a crowd last week, and cable operators agreed on a couple of things. More
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Pai: Biennial Reg Review Should Be Commission-Level DecisionJohn Eggerton, May 18, 2012The FCC Friday released its regulatory review framework and newly minted Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai is already making his preferences known. More
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Groups Seek Wholesaling, Other Conditions On Dish WaiverJohn Eggerton, May 18, 2012Some public-interest groups have asked the FCC to put conditions on any grant of terrestrial wireless broadband licenses for spectrum that had been reserved for satellite-delivered service. More
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Comcast Pricing Critics Undeterred By Data-Use AnnouncementJohn Eggerton, May 17, 2012Comcast executive vice president David Cohen told reporters that the headline on its announcement Thursday that it was changing its Xfinity data-use threshholds should be that there was no longer a cap, but critics of usage-based pricing saw it differently. More
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Comcast To Shift From Broadband Caps To Usage-Based PricingBy Todd Spangler, May 17, 2012
Comcast will eliminate the 250-Gigabyte monthly broadband-usage limit on Xfinity Internet, moving over time instead to a usage-based pricing model that will provide at least 300 GB of data usage before customers incur additional charges, the operator said Thursday.
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Genachowski to Senate: No Network Neutrality Complaints So FarJohn Eggerton, May 16, 2012FCC chairman Julius Genachowski told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing audience Wednesday that the agency had not received a single complaint in the six months since its Open Internet order went into effect, but also said that if a court overturns it, he would urge Congress to codify it. More
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Genachowski: FCC Should Not Prejudge News Corp. on Phone Hacking IssuesJohn Eggerton, May 16, 2012FCC chairman Julius Genachowski would not comment on whether or not the agency was investigating Fox's fitness as a licensee in the wake of the British hacking scandal and a Parliamentary committee's finding that News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch was not fit to run an international media company More
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Strickling Defends Stand-Down of Public Safety Net ProjectsJohn Eggerton, May 16, 2012National Telecommunications & Information Administration chief Larry Strickling found himself defending the agency's decision last week to put a partial hold on seven broadband public safety network projects, including ones funded through broadband grants. More
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Strickling: Government Needs Paradigm Shift in Spectrum ThinkingJohn Eggerton, May 16, 2012NTIA chief Larry Strickling said Wednesday that the government needs to come up with a "new paradigm" for freeing up government spectrum, saying the problem with the group's own report on a timetable and cost -- 10 years and $18 billion -- was too long and too costly. More
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House Republicans Press NTIA, RUS on Overbuild IssueJohn Eggerton, May 16, 2012Government administrators came in for some tough questioning from House Republicans on the broadband loans and grants they administer through various programs, particularly the stimulus act BTOP and BIP grant and loan programs that funded $7 billion-plus in projects. More
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Comcast CTO: VOD To Xbox Goes Over A Dedicated IP PathBy Todd Spangler, May 16, 2012
Rebutting accusations that Comcast is violating the FCC's network neutrality rules, chief technology officer Tony Werner said the MSO is sending VOD to Xbox 360 consoles over a separate, additional segment of IP bandwidth but isn't "prioritizing" that over Internet traffic.
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Republicans Want More ‘Answers' from FCC on LightSquaredJohn Eggerton, May 15, 2012In the wake of news that LightSquared had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday, the Republican leadership on the House Energy & Commerce Committee called for more "answers" from the FCC on the conditional waiver it granted the company. More
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Rosenworcel: FCC Has Twin Responsibilities to Congress, PublicJohn Eggerton, May 15, 2012Witnesses at Hill hearings are routinely asked to summarize their prepared testimony in the interests of time. That will not be necessary with new Democratic FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who plans to offer only brief opening remarks at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday. More
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Pai: Freeing Up Spectrum Via Auctions Is Job OneJohn Eggerton, May 15, 2012Count new Republican FCC commissioner Ajit Pai among those who want the agency to move swiftly to reclaim spectrum from broadcasters, as well as free up more bandwidth currently in government hands. More
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