NCTA Concerned About SBC-AT&T
The cable industry is raising concerns about SBC Communications Inc.’s plan to acquire AT&T Corp. for $16 billion.
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PTC Targets MTV in New Study
The Parents Television Council is planning to release a study Tuesday that blasts MTV: Music Television for peddling “sex, drugs and alcoho
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NCTA, Public TV Reach Carriage Deal
Washington -- The cable industry has agreed in principle to carry multiple digital services of public television stations under a 10-year agr
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Cable to Cities: Let’s Parley
Washington— The cable industry is reaching out to local governments to test whether they can forge
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FCC Offers ’06 Set-Top Compromise
A Federal Communications Commission staff plan would retain the agency’s ban on integrated set-tops but provide an exemption for low-cost
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Broadcasters are Gunning for Multicast
NAB Trots Out Its Top Execs to Push For DTV Must-Carry
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Bush Calls for Balance on Indecency
In an interview on C-SPAN set to air Sunday night, President Bush gave comfort to both sides in the fight over indecent programming on televi
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Verizon Near Pivotal Cable Franchise
Verizon Communications is poised to earn its fifth cable franchise, this time in Keller, Texas, which the telco identified as the first marke
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B’casters Ready to Storm the Hill
If broadcasters lose a big regulatory battle with cable at the Federal Communications Commission next month, at least one TV-station company
