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Bloomberg, Comcast Trade FCC Filings

Parties Continue to Tussle over News Neighborhooding Condition in NBCU Deal
By: John Eggerton Oct 1 2012 - 8:44pm
Parties Continue to Tussle over News Neighborhooding Condition in NBCU Deal

The legal volleying between Bloomberg and Comcast over the news neighborhooding condition in the NBCU deal continued Monday.

Bloomberg told the FCC in a filing opposing Comcast's request for further review of an FCC clarification that Comcast cannot comply with the FCC mandate that it group Bloomberg TV with other news nets on its systems by doing so for HD channels rather than standard-definition versions

FCC Won't Close Proceeding On Joint Sales Agreements Attribution

Agency: Further Action May Be Needed
By: John Eggerton Sep 28 2012 - 10:48am
Agency: Further Action May Be Needed

The FCC has decided not to terminate its open proceeding on whether TV station joint sales agreements and the FCC's attribution rules.

MMTC: Finish Spectrum Auctions By 2013

Group Says Mobile Broadband is First Technology Where Minorities Have Head Start
By: John Eggerton Sep 28 2012 - 9:35am
Group Says Mobile Broadband is First Technology Where Minorities Have Head Start

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is "strongly encouraging" the FCC to finish up its spectrum incentive auctions by the end of 2013 to free up more spectrum for wireless as quickly as possible.

That call came on the eve of the FCC's planned vote on proposing a framework for the auctions, in which it is trying to free up as much as 120 MHz of spectrum by paying broadcasters to give up some of theirs.

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Sunlight to School Followers On Political Files

Foundation Holding Webinar as Part of Ad Sleuth Project
By: John Eggerton Sep 27 2012 - 4:27pm
Foundation Holding Webinar as Part of Ad Sleuth Project

The Sunlight Foundation is holding a seminar Oct. 9 to help it team of political ad sleuths decipher TV stations' online political files.

Starting in August, the FCC required the top four affiliates in the top 200 markets to file records of political ad buys, including who bought them and how much they paid.

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CableLabs Chief Strategy Officer Reed Resigns

Exec Will Exit at End of September
By: Todd Spangler Sep 17 2012 - 12:13pm
Exec Will Exit at End of September

David Reed, executive vice president and chief strategy officer for CableLabs, has resigned from the R&D consortium and will leave at the end of September, Multichannel News has learned.

Reed, who joined CableLabs in 1994, informed the MSO-owned company last week of his resignation after the board’s meeting in New York, industry sources confirmed. He will remain with CableLabs through the end of the month.

CableLabs did not immediately comment. Sources did not indicate what Reed may be planning to do post-CableLabs.

FCC Seeks Input on Device Interoperability in Spectrum NPRM

By: Sep 13 2012 - 4:29pm

According to sources inside and outside the FCC, the draft rulemaking proposal on spectrum incentive auctions seeks input on whether and how to put device interoperability conditions on the sale of reclaimed lower 700 MHz broadcast spectrum.

The FCC put such conditions on auction of reclaimed upper 700 MHz spectrum reclaimed in the first DTV transition, which Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) pointed out in a Hill hearing on mobile apps Wednesday led to the rise of Android.

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Industry Groups Highly Critical of FCC Broadband Report

By: John Eggerton Aug 22 2012 - 5:02pm

Argue Commission is Missing Mark, Furthering Policy Agenda with Deployment Conclusion

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FCC Special Access Call Continues to Draw Crowd

By: John Eggerton Aug 23 2012 - 4:29pm

Comments Focus on Timing of Data Collection, State of Market, FCC Resources to Conduct Reviews

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FCC Unanimously Approves Verizon/SpectrumCo Deal

By: John Eggerton Aug 23 2012 - 8:23pm

Republicans Raising Concerns about Data Roaming, FCC Authority

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FCC: Broadband Deployment Still Isn’t Timely, Reasonable

By: By John Eggerton Aug 27 2012 - 4:01am

Only 27% of Americans Can Get 100-Mbps today, Genachowski Says

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